194 BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 



Genus LEGATUS Scl. 

 Legatm Sclater, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 46. Type L. alhicollis (Vieill.). 



Pig. 81. — Legaius alhicollis. 



This genus is distinguished by the absence of a crest, in having 

 the crown 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, third, and fourth primaries 

 longest and subequal, the first about equal in length to that 

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

 the length of the wing. The 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, (coloration : male and 

 female similar. , 



479. Legatus albicoUis successor. 



Little White-necked Flycatcher. 



Hloenia alhicollis (nee Vieill.) Cab. in Schomb. Eeis. Guian. iii. p. 701, 



1848. 

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



Camacusa); Selater, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xiv. p. 155 (part), 1888 



(Camaeusa, Bartica 61*0 ve) ; Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. 



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

 Legatus alhicollis successor Chubb. Bull. Brit. Om: Club, zl. p. 43, 



Dec. 8, 1919. 



Adult niale. 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 



