414 DESERT FLYCATCHER. 



THE Swallow-tailed Flycatcher is thus noticed 

 by Dr. Latham. " Bigger -than a Lark in the 

 body : length ten inches, of which the tail is five : 

 the beak is straight, eight lines long, compressed, 

 and weak ; the colour of it black : irides red : the 

 head and back are light grey, with a little tinge 

 of red : the under parts of the body white ; 

 beneath the wing red ; and when closed a little of 

 this colour appears just above the bend of it : the 

 lesser wing-coverts are ash-colour, with pale edges, 

 giving the appearance of scales ; the greater wing- 

 coverts marked in the same manner, but blackish : 

 the quills black, edged with grey : the tail is greatly 

 forked; the outer feathers are five inches long, and 

 the middle ones but two ; these are all black, 

 edged with rufous grey, but the outer ones have 

 the exterior webs white for half their length : the 

 legs are black. Inhabits Mexico." It varies in 

 the length of its tail. 



DESERT FLYCATCHER. 

 (Muscicapa Deserti.) 



Mu. corpore ex ferruglneo nigricante^fuliginoso, alts caudaque 



nigricantibuSf rostrojlavicante. 

 Flycatcher with the body of a ferruginous sooty black, with the 



wings and tail dusky, and beak yellowish. 

 Muscicapa Deserti. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 944. Lath. Ind. Orn. 



2. 478, 44. 



Muscicapa fuliginosa. Mus. Carls, fas. 2. pi. 4f. 

 Desert Flycatcher. Lath. Syn. Sup. IL 217. 7- 



