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INSECTIVOILE. 



Family MTJSCICAPIBjE. (Lesson.) 



Genus Muscicapa. (Linnceus.) 



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, Temminck, 1820. Cuviee, 1829. 



" Bonaparte, 1838. Schinz, 1840. 



" Keyseeling and Blasius, 1840. 



" Schlegel, 1844. Degland, 1844. 



atricapilla, car. i/., Gmelin; Syst., 1788. 

 " Latham; Ind., 1790. 



Meter and Wolff, 1810. 

 Vieillot, Diet., 1818. 

 streptopliera, Vieillot, Faun. Fran., 145. 



collaris, Bechstein. JNaumann. Gould. 



Le Gobe-Mouche a collier 



dc la Lorraine, Of the French. 



Weisskalsiger Fliegenfanger, Of the Germans. 



