MUSCICAPA COLLARIS. 
(W HITE-COLLARED FLYCATCHER.) 
Le Gobe-mouche noir a collier, Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. iv. p. 520; Pl. Enl. 565. fig. 2 (1778). 
Muscicapa atricapilla, var. (3, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 935 (1788). 
Muscicapa collaris, Bechst. Gemein. Naturg. Deutschl. iv. p. 495 (1795). 
Muscicapa albicollis, Temm. Man. d’Orn. p. 100 (1815). 
Muscicapa streptophora, Vieill. Faun. Fr. p. 145 (1828). 
“Muscicapa melanoptera, Heckel,” Naumann, Naturg. Vog. Deutschl. xiii. p. 245, taf. 352. 
fig. 1 (1844). 
Muscicapa albifrons, C. L. Brehm, Vogelfang, p. 81 (1855). 
Muscicapa collaris albifrons, A. K. Brehm, Verz. Samml. C. L. Brehm, p. 3 (1866). 
Muscicapa collaris microrhyncha, A. K. Brehm, ut supra, (1866). 
Muscicapa collaris atrostriata, A. Ki. Brehm, ut supra (1866). 
Gobe-mouche noir a collier, French; Der weisshalsige Fliegenfinger, German; Papa moscas, 
Portuguese; Aliuzza dal collo bianco, Italian; Zanzarel, Maltese; Hvidhalset Flue- 
snapper, Danish; Halsbands-flugsnappare, Swedish ; Muholovka belosheyka, Russian. 
Figure notabiles. 
D’Aubenton, Pl. Enl. 565. fig. 2; Werner, Atlas, Insectivores, pl. 7; Kjerb. Orn. Dan. 
taf. xv.; Fritsch, Vog. Kur. taf. 21. fig. 10, taf. 22. fig. 3; Naumann, Vog. Deutschl. 
taf. 65. figs. 1, 2, et 352. fig. 1; Sundevall, Sv. Fogl. taf. xvii. fig. 4; Gould, B. of Eur. 
pi Odraidb.ot G. Brit. ily ple xvi. 
3 ad. pileo, capitis lateribus, dorso, scapularibus, supracaudalibus et cauda nigris: maculé frontali, collo, 
gula, gutture et corpore subtis albis: remigibus nigro fuscis, primariis intimis et secundariis ad basin 
albis, secundariis intimis, preter apicem nigrum, totis albis: tectricibus alarum majoribus albo ter- 
minatis, tectricibus mimoribus dorso concoloribus: uropygio albicante: rectrice extimd utrinque 
pogonium externum albo notaté: rostro et pedibus nigris: iride fusca. 
2 vix a femina M. atricapille distinguenda. 
Adult Male (Malta). Crown, sides of the head and nape, except a large round white patch on the forehead, 
jet-black, neck all round, on the hind neck to the fore part of the back white; back, scapulars, upper 
tail-coverts and tail jet-black, the outer web of the first tail-feather on each side marked with white ; 
rump white; quills blackish brown, the inner primaries and secondaries white on the basal portion, the 
innermost secondaries being only black at the tip and chiefly on the inner web, this white forming a 
very large alar patch, the larger coverts being also broadly tipped with white; lesser coverts, like the 
back, deep black; entire underparts pure white, except the feathers on the thighs, which are intermixed 
black and white; bill and legs black; iris brown. ‘Total length about 5 inches, culmen 0°45, wing 3:15, 
tail 2°05, tarsus 0°65. 
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