SWALLOW-TAILED FLYCATCHER. 413 



KNOWN by the name of Putillas in South Ame- 

 rica : the beak of the male is brown ; and the 

 crown of his head is ornamented with a most 

 singular rounded crest, very similar to that of 

 Pipra rupicola ; it is of a most splendid crimson 

 colour, as are also the sides of the head, and all 

 the under parts of his body ; the rest of the plum- 

 age brown; the quills edged with grey: legs red- 

 dish : female without a crest, and with those parts 

 of her body, which, in the male are crimson, 

 merely tinged with that colour : the rest of the 

 plumage is also much paler: length five inches 

 and a half. Inhabits the borders of the river 

 Amazons. 



SWALLOW-TAILED FLYCATCHER. 

 (Muscicapa forficata.) 



M u. cauda longissimaforjicata, corpore pallide griseo subtus albo, 



tectricibus alarum cinereis albido undulatis, inferioribus rubris. 

 Flycatcher with a very long forked tail, pale grey body, beneath 



white ; the wing-coverts ash-colour, waved with white ; under 



the wings red. 

 Muscicapa forficata. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. Q3l.Lath. Ind. Orn. 



2. 485. IQ. Vieil. Ois. de I'Amer. Sept. 1.71. 

 Le Moucherolle a queue fourchue du Mexique. Buff. Hist. 



Nat. Ois. 4. 564. Buff'. PI. Enl. 677. 

 Le Moucherolle & queue fourchue. Vieil. Ois. de VAmer. Sept. 



1.7L 

 Swallow- tailed Flycatcher. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 356. 60. 



