248 FLYCATCHER. 



Moucherolle brun de la Martinique, Buf. iv. 563. 



Petechial Flycatcher, Gen. Syn. iii. 360. Skaw's Zool.x. 396. 



LENGTH six inches and a half. Bill black ; plumage above 

 deep brown ; throat deep rufous ; fore part of the neck and breast 

 cinereous brown ; from thence to the vent cinereous, with rufous 

 spots; under tail coverts rufous ; quills brown ; tail deeper brown ; 

 all, except the two middle feathers, edged with paler brown and 

 white. — Inhabits Martinico. 



149.— ACTIVE FLYCATCHER. 



Muscicapa agilis, Ind. Orn. ii. 486. Gm. Lin. i. 948. 

 Gobe-mouche olive de Cayenne, Buf. iv. 544. PI. enl. 574. 2. 

 Active Flycatcher, Gen. Syn. iii. 368. Shaw's Zool. x. 415. 



SIZE small. Bill blackish, with a few weak bristles at the 

 base; plumage above olive-brown; beneath dirty white, inclining 

 to rufous on the throat ; quills and tail dusky black, edged with 

 olive brown ; the last longish ; legs brown. 



Inhabits Cayenne ; lives on insects, which it is continually making 

 short flights after in summer ; and in defect of these, searches after 

 them on the bark of trees, in the manner of the Wren. 



150.— SURINAM FLYCATCHER. 



Muscicapa Surinama, Ind. Om. ii. 487. Lin. i. 325. Gm. Lin. i. 932. 

 Surinam Flycatcher, Gen. Syn. iii. 361. Shaw's Zool. x. 340. 



SIZE uncertain. Upper parts of the plumage black, the under 

 white ; tail rounded, tipped with white. 



Inhabits Surinam. — The above taken from Linnaeus's description. 



