MUSCICAPlDiE. 129 



Cauda utrinque compressa, 

 ascendens; rectricibus apice 

 acutis. 



Tail compressed on each 

 side, ascending; its fea- 

 thers pointed at the tip. 



Sp. i. Al. tricolor. Vieil. Analyse, p. 68. (F.) 



Al. vertice caudd pedibusque nigris ; corpore subtus genisque 

 albis; dorso uropygioque cinereis; rostro olivaceo. 



Alecturus with the crown, tail, and legs black ; the body beneath 

 and cheeks white j the back and rump cinereous ; the beak 

 olivaceous. 



Muscicapa Alector. Ternm. PI. CoL 155. f. 1. male;y. 2. fe- 

 male. 



Inhabits Brazil. Length six inches and a half: 

 the male has the forehead and the cheeks marbled 

 with black and white : the top of the head, the nape, 

 the back, the scapulars, and a half belt on the sides 

 of the breast, deep black, and v unspotted in those birds 

 which have completed their moulting, but varied with 

 brown in those of imperfect plumage : the throat and 

 all the under parts are white : the bend of the wings, 

 as well as the base and part of the outer web of the 

 quills, is white : the tail-feathers (which this bird has 

 the power of elevating) are black, and their inner 

 webs are twice as broad as the outer, those of the two 

 middle feathers being widest, and having their ex- 

 tremities very long and decomposed, with each radius 

 separated into a distinct fringe, easily distinguishable ; 

 the inner webs are shorter, and the radii are united 

 as usual ; but the tip of the shaft is elongated into a 

 delicate point, and extends nearly half an inch be- 

 yond the webs : the upper mandible of the beak is 

 brown, and the lower white : the legs are black. 

 The female differs considerably from the male : she 



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