284 A PRACTICAL HANDBOOK OF BRITISH BIRDS. 



f White band on hind-neck ... M. albicoUis ad., p. 293 



v No white band on hind-neck . . 3/. hypoleuca, r> a d., p. 288 



( Wing over 75 mm M. hypoleuca andM. 



5 1 albicollis, and j uv., pp. 290, 294 



^ Wing not over 75 mm. . . 



IBase of tail brown like rest . . M. latirostris, ad. and 

 juv., p. 287 

 Base of tail white .... 7 



( Throat rufous M. parva, o ad-. P- 295 



7 ^ Throat whitish or buff . . M. parva, $ and juv., p. 296 



MUSCICAPA STRIATA.* 



118. Muscicapa striata striata (Pall.) THE SPOTTED 

 FLYCATCHER. 



MOTACILLA STRIATA Pallas, Vroeg's Cat. Verzam. Vogelen, etc., Adum- 



bratiuncula, p. 3 (1764 Holland). 



Muscicapa grisola Linnaeus, Yarrell, I, p. 220; Saunders, p. 157. 



DESCRIPTION (Plate 10). Adult male and female. Winter. 

 Fore-head and crown brown, feathers with blackish centres and pale 

 edges giving spotted appearance ; rest of upper-parts uniform dark 

 to greyish-brown, tipper tail-coverts with somewhat inconspicuous 

 buff tips ; lores and ear-coverts brown ; centre of chin and throat 

 white with one or two brown streaks, sides of throat and breast 

 same but much streaked brown ; sides of breast and flanks brown 

 tinged cinnamon and with dark brown streaks ; centre of belly 

 and under tail -co verts white unstreaked ; axillaries and under 

 wing-coverts cinnamon-brown ; tail dark brown ; primaries dark 

 brown with greyish-white margins to inner Avebs ; secondaries 

 same but also with narrow buff edgings to outer Avebs ; primary- 

 coverts as primaries ; greater and median coverts dark broAvn with 

 buff tips and edgings ; lesser coverts brown Avith slightly paler tips. 

 This plumage is acquired by a moult of the body -feathers July- 

 Sept., but Avings, wing-coverts and tail are not usually moulted 

 before migration, although occasionally some secondaries and 

 Aving-co verts and rarely central pair of tail-feathers are moulted. 

 The pale edgings to old Aving -feat hers and Aving-coverts are always 

 much AA'orn. Slimmer. From Nov. -March a complete moult takes 

 place (in winter quarters), neAv plumage being like old except that 

 pale edgings to secondaries and Aving-coA-erts are broader (i.e., not 

 Avorn) and more conspicuous. As summer advances upper-parts 

 become greyer brown by abrasion. 



* Since the rediscovery of the rare work quoted (only three copies appear 

 to be known, but a reprint has been made of the " Adumbratiuncula ") its 

 new names have been adopted, and under these circumstances striata of 1764 

 antedates grisola of 1766. E.H. 



