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COLLARED FLYCATCHER. 



(Muscicapa collaris.) 



Me. cinerea, subtus alba, gutturejuscescente-badio f fascia subfus 



transversa nigra, rostra, alls, caudaque nigris. 

 Grey Flycatcher, beneath white, with the throat of a brownish 



chocolate, with a transverse black fascia beneath ; the beak, 



wings, and tail, black. 



Muscicapa collaris. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 471. 11. 

 Muscicapa raelanoptera. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 939. 

 Muscicapa senegalensis torquata. Briss. Orn. 2. 370. 8. pl 



36. f. 1. 

 Gobe-mouche & gorge brun du Senegal. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 



4. 533. 



Gobe-mouche & gorge rousse. Buff. PL Enl. 567. f. 3. 

 Collared Flycatcher. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 330. 8. 



THIS bird is in length near five inches : its 

 beak is black : the head and upper parts of the 

 body ash-colour : wing-coverts with a white fascia : 

 quills black, with grey margins : throat and fore- 

 part of the neck brownish chesnut, with a trans- 

 verse black line on the lower edge, forming a 

 sort of collar on the neck : breast and under parts 

 of the body white : thighs varied with dusky and 

 white : tail black : the outer web of the exterior 

 feather white ; and the tips of the rest, the two 

 middle ones excepted, of that colour : legs grey ; 

 claws brown. Inhabits Senegal. 



