MUSCICAPA PARVA., 
(RED-BREASTED FLYCATCHER.) 
Muscicapa parva, Bechst. Gemeinn. Naturg. iv. p. 505 (1795). 
Muscicapa lais, Khr. Symb. Phys. Aves, fol. ¢ (1829). 
Muscicapa rufogularis, C. L. Brehm, Vég. Deutschl. p. 228 (1831). 
Saxicola rubeculoides, Sykes, P. Z. S. 1832, p. 92. 
Muscicapa minuta, Hornsch. et Schill. Verz. Vog. Pomm. (1837). 
Muscicapa rubecula, Swains. in Jard. Nat. Libr. xiii. p. 221 (1838). 
Erythrosterna parva (Bechst.), Bp. Comp. List, p. 44 (1838). 
Erythrosterna parva ruficollis, A. E. Brehm, Verz. Samml. C. L. Brehm, p. 3 (1866). 
Erythrosterna parva rufigularis, A. EK. Brehm, ut supra (1866). 
Gobe-mouche rougedtre, French; kleiner Fliegenschndpper, German. 
Figure notabiles. 
Werner, Atlas, Insectivores, pl. 9; Kjerb. Orn. Dan. taf. 15; Fritsch, Vog. Eur. taf. 24. fig. 15, 
and taf. 25. fig. 1; Naumann, Vég. Deutschl. taf. 65. fig. 3; Sundevall, Svensk. Fogl. pl. 68. 
fig. 4; Gould, B. of Kur. pl. 64; id. B. of G. B. ii. pl. 20. 
g ad. supra brunneus, pileo, nuchaé et capitis lateribus czerulescenti cinereo-tinctis, supracaudalibus nigro- 
cinereo lavatis: remigibus saturaté fuscis, secundariis intimis rufescente brunneo marginatis: rectri- 
cibus centralibus nigricantibus, reliquis ad basin albis et nigro terminatis: gula et pectore rufescenti- 
aurautiacis: corpore subtis imo albo, hypochondriis et crisso vix cervino lavatis: rostro brunnescenti- 
corneo, ad basin mandibula pallidiore: pedibus brunneis: iride fusca. 
2 ad. mari dissimilis, capite dorso concolori nec cinereo tincto, gutture et pectore pallidé rufescenti-cervinis. 
Adult Male (Turkey, 10th October). Crown, nape, and sides of the head ashy blue-grey with a brownish 
tinge; ear-coverts and space below and in front of the eye tinged with white; back, rump, and wing- 
coverts wood-brown; tail-coverts brown with a dark blackish grey tinge; quills dark brown, the 
secondaries edged with reddish brown; central rectrices blackish, the outer ones white at the base, 
and with the terminal third blackish ; throat and breast rusty orange, the sides being sharply margined 
by the blue-grey on the neck; rest of the underparts white, on the flanks and to a slight extent on the 
under tail-coverts washed with warm buff; beak horn-brown, lighter at the base of the lower man- 
dible; legs dark brown; iris brown. ‘Total length about 4:5 inches, culmen 0°45, gape 0°55, wing 2°65, 
tail 2°15, tarsus 0:68. 
Adult Female (Turkey). Upper parts as in the male, except that the head is brown without any tinge of 
grey; inner secondaries and larger wing-coverts margined and tipped with pale fulvous-brown, the 
wings and tail being otherwise as in the male; breast, lower throat, and flanks warm reddish buff, the 
rest of the underparts beimg white. 
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