162 FLYCATCHER. 



A.— Muscicapa capensis, Lin. i. 327. Gm. Lin. i. 945. Bris. ii. 372. t. 36. f. 3. Id. 



Svo.i. 262. 

 Gobe-mouche du Cap. de B. Esp. PL enl. 572. 1. Gen. Syn.m. 227. 3. A. 



Top of the head and sides blaek ; throat white, passing almost to 

 the nape on each side ; hind part of the neck, back, and rump, brown ; 

 tail and its coverts black ; tips of the tail feathers white, and the 

 outer ones almost wholly so on the outer web ; wing coverts brown, 

 across them a rufous bar ; quills dusky, edged with rufous grey ; on 

 the breast a band of black ; the rest of the under parts white ; legs 

 yellowish brown. 



Inhabits the Cape with the last ; probably differing only in sex. 



8.— WHITE-NECKED FLYCATCHER. 



Muscicapa atricapilla, Ind. Orn. ii. p. 468. 2. y. 



Gobe-mouche noir a Collier, Buf. iv. 520. pi. 25. 1. PL enl. 565. f. 2. 3. Kramer, 



377.16. Jacq. Beijtr. 41. 1. 19. 

 Muscicapa albicollis, Tern. Man. p. 100. Id. Ed. ii. 153. 

 Pied Flycatcher, Gen. Syn. iii. p. 325. 2. Var. B. 



LENGTH five inches. Plumage in general black above, with 

 a slight mixture of white on the rump ; on the quills a large patch 

 of white ; all the under parts white, passiug round the neck as a 

 collar; the forehead is also white. The female differs from the male 

 much as in the Coldfinch, having only a small spot of white on the 

 forehead; general colour of the plumage brown, or ash-colour; the 

 two outer tail feathers edged with white; and the white surrounding 

 the neck less apparent, but the under parts in general are white : in 

 the winter the difference between the sexes is less apparent, and the 

 male is fully black only in the breeding season. 



Inhabits the warmer parts of Europe ; according to M. Buffon, 

 is well known in Lorraine and Brie, where it comes the beginning of 

 April, and builds in the hole of a tree, not far from the ground, 



