194 BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 



Genus LEGATUS Scl. 

 Legatus Sclater, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 46. Type L. alhicoUis (Vieill.). 



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Fig. 81. — Legaius alhicoUis. 



This penus is distiiiouished by the absence of a crest, in having 

 the crov n of the head yellow, and by the almost entire absence 

 of rictal bristles. The bill is rather depressed, the width at the 

 base being nearly equal to the length of the exposed culmen. 

 The wing is rounded, the second, tiiird, and fourth primaries 

 lono"est and subequal, the first about equal in length to that 

 of the filth. The tail is square at the tip and about five-sevenths 

 the length of the wing. Tiie tarsus is rather less than one-third 

 the length of the tail, and the hind toe and claw are almost equal 

 in length to the middle toe and claw, (^oloration : male and 

 female similar. 



479. Leg'atus albicollis successor. 

 Little White-necked Flycatcher. 



Eloenia albicollis (nee Vieill.) Cab. in Scliomb. Reis. Guian. iii. p. 701, 



1848. 

 Legatus albicollis (nee Vieill.) Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 95 (Bartica Grove, 



Camiicusa) ; Sclater, Cat. H. Brit. Mus. xiv. p. 155 (part), 1888 



(Camacusa, Bartica Grove) ; Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. 



p. 292, no. 2977 (part), 1912. 

 Legatus albicollis successor Chubb. Bull. Brit. Oi"n. Club, xl. p. 4.3, 



Dec. 8, 1919. 



Adult male. General colour of the upper surface smoke-brown 

 including the back, wings, and tail ; median and greater upper 

 wing-coverts narrowly edged with white like the innermost 

 secondary -quills ; inner webs of flight-quills broadly margined 



