INSECTIVOR. 
Family MUSCICAPIDA:. (Lesson. ) 
Genus Muscicapa. (Linneus.) 
Generic Characters.—Beak of medium size, angular, depressed 
at base, and compressed towards the tip, which is curved and 
hollowed out. Nostrils basal, ovoid, lateral, and partly covered 
by hairs, pointed forwards. Tarsi medium size, as long, or 
longer than middle toe; middle and external toes united at 
their base; the claw of the hind toe stronger and more cur- 
ved than the other. First quill feather very short, second 
shorter than third or fourth, the third longest. Tail hollowed 
out at the end, having twelve quill feathers. 
WHITE-COLLARED FLYCATCHER. 
Muscicapa albicollis. 
Muscicapa albicollis, Tremminck, 1820. Cuvier, 1829. 
Bonaparte, 1838. Scurnz, 1840. 
KEryYSERLING aND Brasius, 1840. 
ScHLecen, 1844. Derenanp, 1844. 
atricapilla, var. y., GMELIN; Syst., 1788. 
ce oG Latuam; Ind., 1790. 
ce G Meyer anv Wotrr, 1810. 
oe cc Virrttot, Dict., 1818. 
‘ streptophera, Viertiot, Faun. Fran., 145. 
ce collaris, Becustern. Naumann. Gov tp. 
Te Gobe-Mouche a collier 
de la Lorraine, Or THE FRENCH. 
Weisshalsiger Elicgenfunger, Ov tHe GERMANS. 
