a large spot on the wing, a smaller one in front, and the external 

 edge of the tail, white. It builds on the trunks of trees*. 



A species subject to the same changes has lately been discovered; 

 the back of the neck of the male, however, in tlie pairing season, 

 being as black as the back, and wanting the little white spot on the 

 edge of the wing. It is the 



M. luctuosa, Tera.; Naum. 64; Edw. 30, 1. The female, Enl. 

 6G8, 1. Which is found farther north than the preceding. 



A small reddish species has lately been discovered in Germany. 

 M. parva, Bechst. ; Naum. 65, 3. 

 The bill of the Fly-catchers becomes more and more slender, and finally 

 approaches that of several species of Regulus f. 



Some species, in which the ridge is somewhat higher, and arched to- 

 wards the point, lead to the forms of the Saxicola J. 



Various genera or subgenera of birds are closely allied to certain links 

 in the series of Fly-catchers, although they greatly exceed them in 

 size, viz. 



* The antients knew this bird by the names of Sycalis and Ficedula, in its ordi- 

 nary plumage, and by that of Melancorliynchos and Atricapilla, in its beautiful livery; 

 but as the name of Bec-figue (Becca-fico), which corresponds to ficedula, is given in 

 the south, and in Italy, to various species of Faiivet and Anthus, naturalists have ap- 

 plied the united attributes of these birds to a certain state of this Fly -catcher, and 

 formed the imaginary species presented by this same name of Bec-figue in Bulfon, 

 and in those who have followed him. It is very certainlj^ the M. albicoUis, and not 

 the M. lucluosa, that is the Beccu-fico of Aldrovandus, Ornith. II. 758 and 759. 



f We also refer to the true Fly-catchers, the Gillit {Muse, bicolor), Enl. 675, I. — 

 Le Print, Vaill. 161; Enl. 5G7, 1 and 2 {M. senei;alerisis, Gm.). — M. albicapilla, 

 Vieill. Am. 37.— M armillata, lb. 4, 2.—M. dlops, Tern. 144, \.—M. eximia, lb. 2. 

 — M. ventralis, Id. Col. 275, 2. — M. virescens, lb. 3. — M. obsoleta, lb. 1.— i»f. flabel- 

 lifera, lb., Gmel. Lath. Syn. II. part I. pi. 49.— it/. scrita,\a.\\\. Afr. 154.— il/. ruti- 

 cilla, Gm. Enl. 556: Vieill. Am. 35 and 36; Wils. I. vi. 6. — Platyr. paganus, Spix. — 

 PI, marinus. Id. 2.—Pipra elata. Id. VIII. 2.— (a) 



X Such are the Oranor, Vaill. IV. 155, and several neighbouring species, similar 

 to the Miisc. ruficUla, so far as regards the distribution of colours, but differing in the 

 bill, such as Muse, miniatu, Tem. or Tardus speciosus. Lath. Col. 156. — M. flam- 

 mea, Forst. Zool. Ind. 25 and Tem. Col. 263, or Parus mahtbaricus. Lath. — M. hya- 

 cinthina. Col. 30. — The Azuroux (31. azurea), Vaill. Afr. 158, 2. — M. 7iigerrima,\\e'\\\. 

 Diet. Spix, 18, 1. — M. galeata, Spix, 17, a different species. — M. stellata, Vieill., 

 Vaill. 157, 2. M. longipes, or the Mh-o-Miro of New Zealand, Less, and Garn. Voy. 

 de Duper. Zool. pi. 19, 1. M. chrysomelas, lb. pi. 18. — M. nivea, Spix, 29, 1. M. 

 ieterophis, Vieill., Diet. — M. mirundinacea, Tem. Col. 119.— The Muse, multicolor, 

 Gm. Lath. Syn. 2, L., is so intermediate between the Fly-catchers and the Mot. phoeni- 

 curus, that we hesitate to assign its position. 



The species of this type which have the strongest bills appear to constitute the 

 Drimophyles of M. Temminck. 



N.B. The Mus flabellifera has become the genus Ripidura of Vig. and Horsf. 

 and the M. ruticilla, the Setophaga of Swainson. The M. sternura, T. Col. 167, 3, 

 is the Sternura of Swains.: and the species whose head is enlarged by feathers, 

 such as the M. australis, White, p. 239, his genus, Pachicephala. The neigh- 

 bouring genus, Seisura, is formed from the Tnrdus volitans, Lath. 



^^ (a) Here should come the genus Vireo, Vieill. (Muscicapa, L., &'c.) 

 These have a bill like the Muscicapa, but it is shorter, not so much depressed, but 

 rather compressed; bristly at base; upper mandible curved at the tip; tongue bifid at 

 the tip. The colour of all the species is olive, more or less inclining to yellow. — 

 Eng. Ed. 



