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vered; the neck of the male, however, in the nuptial season, be- 
ing as black as the back, and wanting the little white spot on 
the edge of the wing. It is the 
M. luctuosa, Tem.; Naum. 64; Edw. 30, 1; The female, Enl. 
668, 1. Which is found farther north than the preceding. 
A small reddish species has lately been discovered in Ger- 
many. JZ. parva, Bechst.; Naum. 65, 3. , 
The beak of the Flycatchers becomes more and more slender, and 
finally approaches that of several species of Regulus.(1) 
Some species in which the ridge is somewhat higher, and arched 
towards the point, lead to the forms of the Saxicolz.(2) 
Various genera or subgenera of birds are closely allied to certain 
links in the series of Flycatchers, although they greatly exceed them 
in size, viz. 
Gymnocepuaus, Geoff. 
Or the Bald Tyrants. They have a beak similar to that of the 
Tyrants, except that its ridge is somewhat more arcuated; a great 
part of their face is destitute of feathers. 
followed him. Itis very certainly the M. albicollis, and not the M. luctuosa, that 
_ is the Becca-fico of Aldrovandus, Ornith. II, 758 and 759. 
* (1) We also refer to the true Flycatchers, the Gillit (Musc. bicolor), Enl. 675, 1. 
r ee Pririt, Vaill. 161; Enl. 567, 1 and 2 (MZ. senegalensis, Gm.).—WM. albicapilla, 
_ Vieill. Am. 37.—M. armillata, Ib. 4, 2.—M. diops, Tem., 144, 1.—M. eximia, Ib. 
2.—WM. ventralis, 1d. Col. 275, 2.—M. virescens, Tb. 3.—M. obsoleta, Ib. 1. M. flabel- 
lifera, Ib., Gmel. Lath. Syn. I, part I, pl. 49.—M. serita, Vaill. Afr. 154.—M. 
ruticilla, Gm. Enl. 556: Vieill. Am. 35 and 36 ; Wils. I, vi, 6—Platyr. paganus, 
Spix—Pi. marinus, Id. 2.—Pipra elata, Id. VIII, 2. See App. XIV. of Am. Edit. 
(2) Such are the Oranor, Vaill. IV, 155, and several neighbouring species, simi- 
lar to the Musc. ruticilla, so far as regards the distribution of colours, but differ- 
ing in the beak, such as Musc. miniata, Tem. or Turdus speciosus, Lath. Col. 156. 
—WM. flammea, Forst. Zool. Ind. 25 and Tem. Col. 263, or Parus malabaricus, Lath. 
—WM. hyacinthina, Col. 30.—The Azuroux (M.azurea), Vaill. Afr. 158, 2—M. niger- 
rimad, Vieill. Dict. Spix, 18, 1—M. galeata, Spix, 17, 2 different species.—M€. stel- 
lata, Vieill., Vail. 157, 2. M. longipes, or the Miro-Miro of New Zealand, Less. 
and Garn. Voy. de Duper. Zool. pl. 19, 1. AZ chrysomelas, tb. pl. 18.—M. nivea, 
Spix, 29,1. WM tcterophis, Vieill., Dict.—M. mirundinacea, Tem. Col. 119.—The 
Muse. multicolor, Gm. Lath. Syn. 2, is so intermediate between the Flycatchers and 
the Mot. phenicurus, that we hesitate to assign its position. 
The species of this type which have the ee beaks appear to constitute 
the Drimoruites of M. Temminck. 
N.B. The Mus flabellifera has become the genus Rirrpura of Vig. and Horsf. 
and the Mf, ruticilla, the Srroruaca of Swainson. The JZ sternura, T. Col. 167, 
3, is the Srernura of Swains.: and the species whose head is enlarged by feathers, 
such as the ©. australis, White, p. 239, his genus, Pacuycrruana. The neigh- 
bouring genus, Srisura, is formed from the J'urdus volitans, Lath. 
