PASSERINE. 937 
Some species, allied to the Muscipete (PLATYRHYNCHUS), are dis- 
tinguished by a still broader and more depressed bill*. 
Others, whose bill is also broad and depressed, are remarkable for 
their long legs and short tail. Two or three only are known, all from 
America; they feed on ants, which caused them to be united to the little 
tribe of Thrushes called Ant-catchersy. 
MuscicapPa, Cuv. 
The Fly-catchers, properly so called, have shorter mustachios and a 
narrower bill than the Muscipete; it is still, however, depressed with an 
acute ridge above, straight edges, and a slightly hooked point. 
Two species of this subgenus are found in France during the 
summer, and lead a melancholy life on high trees. The most com- 
mon is, 
M. grisola, Gm. Enl. 565, 1. (The Grey Fly-catcher). Grey 
above, whitish underneath, with a few greyish spots on the breast. 
In some countries it is kept in houses to destroy flies. The other, 
M. albicollis, Tem.; Gobe-mouche a collier, Enl. 563, 2 and 3; 
and better, Hist. des Ois. tom. IV. in 4to. pl. 25, f. 2, the male in 
wedding plumage; Naum. 65, in its different states. (The Col- 
lared Fly-catcher). Very remarkable for the changes of the male’s 
plumage. Similar in winter to the female; that is, grey, with a 
white band on the wing. In the pairing season it becomes agree- 
ably variegated with pure black and white; calotte, back, wings, and 
tail, black; the forehead, collar, and all the upper part of the body, 
lanoptera, Gm.; Enl. 567, 3.—WM. telescophthalma, Less. and Garn., Voy. de Duperr., 
Zool., pl. xviii. 
Others are remarkable for a long, flat, and obtuse bill, similar to that of the Todies; 
but with a notch, which is wanting in the true Todies, whose feet also are differently 
formed. T. cinereus, Desmar. or T. melanocephalus, Spix, ix. 2. The young is 7. 
cinereus, Spix, x. 1, and J. maculatus, Desm.—T. griseus, Desm. 
Finally, a multitude of other species, as the mantelé, Vaill. 151, or Muse. borbonica, 
Enl. 573, 1.—WM. cristata, Enl. 578, 2, and Tchitrec, Vaill. Afr. III. 142, 1.—Musc. 
cerulea, Eni. 666, 1.—Todus leucocephalus, Pall., Sp., VI. pl. iii. f. 2, or Muse. domini- 
cana, Spix, 29, 2. MM. albiventer, Id. 30, is its female.—T. sylvia, Desm.—Platyrhin- 
chus chrysoceps, Spix, XI. 2.--Plat. ruficauda, Ib. 1.—Plat. hirundinaceus, Spix, 18, 
1.—Plat. cinereus, Ib. 2.—Muse. barbata, Enl. 830, 1, of which M. xanthopygus, Spix, 
IX. 1, appears to be the female.—Musc. coronata, Enl. 675, 1.—The molenar, Vaill. 
160, 1, 2, or M. pistrinaria, Vieill.—The G. m. a lunettes, Ib. 152, 1.—M. flammiceps, 
Tem. Col. 144, 3.—M. mystaz, Spix, 31.—M. murantia, Enl. 331, 1.—M. querula, 
Vieill. Am. 39, from which the Plat. cinereus, Spix, XIII. 2, scarcely differs.— MM, 
cucullata, Lath., &c. 
N.B. The Mus. barbata has become the genus TYRANNULA, Swainson; and the 
M. querula the Mytaera of Vigors and Horsfield. 
* It is from this division that M. Vieillot has made his genus Platyrhynchos, Gal. 
126. Such are Muse. awrantia, Enl. 831, 1.—Todus macrorhynchos, Lath. Syn. I. 
pl. xxx. or Yodus rostratus, Lath., Desmar. and particularly Todus platyrhynchos, 
Pall., Spic., VI. pl. iii. c. We see that many of the Muscipete have been placed 
among the Todies, and although Pallas has set us the example of doing so, the notch 
in the bill, and the separation of the external toe forbid it. Add, Plat. olivaceus, T. 
Col. XII. 1, or sulfurescens, Spix, XII.—Plat. cancromus, Id. Ib. 2. 
+ Here come Turdus auritus, Gm., Enl. 822, and Vieill. Gal. 127, the same as 
Pipra leucotis, but which is neither a Thrush nor a Pipra, and Pipra nevia, Enl. 823, 
f. 2. It is upon this distinction that Vieill. has founded his genus Conoropnaca, 
Galer, 127. 
