166 FLYCATCHER. 



tinge ; rump streaked white and black ; quills brown, edged with 

 white; tail as in the male. It is not unlike our Stone-Chat, and 

 might be placed as a Warbler, were it not for the bristles at the base 

 of the bill. 



This is common on the West Coast of Africa; male and female 

 always together ; the note like the words Pririt print; is a wild bird, 

 and difficult to procure : common on the borders of the Riviere des 

 Poissons, and in all the Caffre Land, especially in the Mimosa 

 Woods, bordering on the great river. 



14.— COLLARED FLYCATCHER. 



Muscicapa collaris, Ind. Orn. ii. 471 . 



1 melanoptera, Gm. Lin. i. 939. 



— — — — Senegalensis torquata, Br is. ii. 370. t. 36. 1. Id. Svo. i. 261. 



Gobe-mouche a gorge brune de Senegal, Buf. iv. 533. 



rousse, PL enl. 567. 3. 



Collared Flycatcher, Gen. Syn. iii. 330. Shaw's Zool. x. 374. 



LENGTH four inches and three quarters. Bill black, broad at 

 the base, and depressed at the tip ; a trifle curved, with a few hairs 

 at the base; head, and all above to the rump, deep ash-colour; 

 throat and neck before brownish chestnut, bounded below with a 

 transverse black line ; breast and under parts white ; thighs dusky 

 and white mixed ; wings black ; across the coverts a white band ; 

 quills black, edged with grey ; tail black, all but the two middle 

 feathers tipped with white, the outer one white on the outer web ; 

 legs ash-colour, claws black. 



Inhabits Senegal. — A specimen shewn to me by Mr. Walcot 

 was larger than the above, and a full inch longer, it answered to the 

 general description ; but in some lights the tail feathers appeared to 

 be transversely undulated. 



