236 FLYCATCHER. 



greenish edges ; wings black, edges of the feathers grey; all the 

 under parts straw-colour ; tail short, black ; scapulars and rump 

 pale ash ; under the eye a pale streak ; legs flesh-colour. 



A. — Length three inches and a half. Bill half an inch, brown, 

 the under mandible whitish ; head and neck ferruginous, streaked 

 with black ; forehead plain ; wings black, the coverts marked with 

 white at the tips, forming two rows of spots ; quills black, edged 

 with white ; back black, with some white markings ; rump ash- 

 colour ; tail black, very short, all but the two middle feathers tipped 

 with white ; beneath the body rufous, very pale, with dusky streaks ; 

 chin white ; legs bluish. 



Inhabits South America. — In the collection of Mr. Bullock. — It 

 has hitherto been received as a Flycatcher, but there are no hairs at 

 the base of the bill, insomuch as to rank it with the Warblers ; yet, 

 no doubt, this might be determined by the manners. This appears 

 to be the male of the Dwarf Species. 



133.— PETTY FLYCATCHER. 



Muscicapa minuta, hid. Orn. ii. 488. Gm. Lin. i. 933. 



Gobe-moucheron, Buf. iv. 553. 



Petty Flycatcher, Gen. Syn. iii. 364. Shaw's Zool. x. 347. 



THIS is somewhat larger than the last. Plumage deep olive 

 grey, tinged with green on the upper parts of the back and belly ; 

 wings blackish, here and there streaked with yellowish white. 



Inhabits Cayenne, and other parts of South America, which 

 abounds with the greatest variety of the Flycatcher tribe ; a proper 

 check to the myriads of insects, the scourge of those parts. 



