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Others, whose beak 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-catchers, Myothere of Illi- 
ger.(1) 
Musotcapa, Cuv. 
The Flycatchers, properly so oalledthave shorter mustachios 
and a narrower beak than the Muscipetes it is still, however, de- 
pressed with an acute ridge above, straight edges, and a slightly 
hooked point. 
Two species of this subgenus are found i in France during the 
summer, and lead a melancholy life on high trees. The most 
common is, 
M. grisola, Gm. Enl. 565, 1. (The’Grey Fly- ets Grey 
above, whitish underneath, with a few greyish spots on the 
breast. In some countries it is kept in houses to fig flies. 
The other, 
M. albicollis, Tem.; Gobe-mouche a collier, Enl. 563, .2 and 33 
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 
Collared Flycatcher.) Very remarkable for the changes of thes 
male’s plumage. Similar in winter to the female; that i ds, erey, 
with a white band on the wing. In the nuptial season it be- 
comes agreeably variegated, with pure black and white; calotte, 
back, wings and tail, black; the forehead, collar, and all the 
upper part of the body, a large spot on the wing, a smaller one’ 
in front, and the external edge of the tail, white. It builds on 
the trunks of trees.(2) 
A species subject to the same changes has lately been disco- 
been placed among the Todies, and although Pallas has set us the example of 
doing so, the notch in the beak, and the separation of the external toe forbid it. 
Add, Plat. olivaceus, T. Col. XI, 1, or sulfurescens, Spix, XIL—Plat. cancromus, 
Id. Ib. 2. 
(1) Here come Furdus auritus, Gm., Enl. 822, and Vieill. Gal. 127, the same as 
Pipra leucotis, but which is neither a Thrush nor a Pipra.—Pipra nexvia, Enl. 823, 
f. 2. It is upon this distinction that Vieill. has founded his genus Conopormaca, 
Galer. 127. 7 
(2) The ancients knew this bird by the names of Sycalis and Ficedula, in its ordi- 
nary plumage, and by that of Melancorhynchos and Atricapilla, in its wedding livery; 
but as the name of Bee-figue (Becca-fico), is given in the south, and in Italy, to 
various species of Fauvet and Anthus, naturalists have applied the united attributes 
of these birds to a certain state of this Flycatcher, and formed the imaginary spe- 
cies presented by this same name of Bec-figue in Buffon, and in those who have 
