8 SPOTTED FLYCATCKEE. 



neck on the sides, streaked with brown; nape, as the back; 

 chin, dull white; throat, dull white, streaked with brown; 

 breast, as the chin, tinged on the sides with yellowish brown; 

 back, light brown. Greater and lesser wing coverts, as the 

 back; primaries, darker brown, sometimes edged with buff 

 brown; the first feather is very short, the seconded fourth 

 nearly equal, the third the longest; secondaries, as the pri- 

 maries; tertiaries, the same, with a narrow margin of light 

 brown. Tail, brown, paler at the tip, slightly forked; under 

 tail coverts, dull white; legs, toes, and claws, dusky black. 



The female resembles the male in plumage. 



The young have the feathers at first tipped with a yel- 

 lowish white spot, which gives them a general mottled appear- 

 ance. 



