262 FLYCATCHER. 



with two bars of greenish white, from the ends of the feathers being 

 of that colour ; three of the inner second quills deeply margined 

 with white, the rest fringed with greenish, and the very tips of all, 

 but the first three, fringed with white ; tail even, brown, the outer 

 web of the exterior feather white ; the quills, when closed, reach 

 rather beyond the middle of the tail; legs black. 

 Inhabits America. 



174— ROCK FLYCATCHER. 



Muscicapa rupestris, Maxim. Trav. i. p. 303. 



LENGTH nearly seven inches. Upper parts of the plumage 

 dark grey brown ; the lower, as well as the tail feathers, rusty red, 

 the latter having broad, dark brown spots ; the feathers of the wings 

 dark brown, with irregular, rusty, transverse stripes. 



Inhabits Brazil, about Rio Grande, in the Sertam of Bahia; 

 called Gibao de couro, or Leather Jacket; is found in Minas, and 

 even on the East Coast, but more rarely ; builds among the rocks, 

 and every where keeps among the stones, or on the roofs of houses ; 

 observed often sitting on the point of a block, from which it flies 

 perpendicularly upwards on the insects, and then descends to its 

 former place. 



175— CHORAL FLYCATCHER. 



Muscicapa vociferans, Maxim. Trav. i. p. 209. 



SIZE of a Blackbird ; length ten inches. Upper parts dark ash 

 grey, in some places with a brownish, or yellowish tinge; beneath 

 pale ash grey ; breast and throat darkest; tips of the feathers of the 

 lower parts, here and there inclined to yellow. 



