178 WHITE-COLLARED FLYCATCHER. 



Male in breeding plumage. The top and sides of 

 the head, back, small wing coverts, upper tail coverts, 

 and tail of a deep black; the lower part of the back 

 variegated with white. The forehead, a collar round 

 the lower part of the neck, a large longitudinal spot, 

 and a small spot below it upon each wing of a pure 

 white; the outermost tail feathers on each side edged 

 with white. Beak, feet, and iris black. 



Adult male in autumn and winter. Greyish brown 

 above, white below; it only then differs from the female 

 of the same age by a kind of grey and often interrupted 

 collar round the neck, and by the feathers being darker. 



Female. In breeding plumage very little different 

 from the Pied Flycatcher. It is of an ashy grey above, 

 and pure white below; the forehead whitish; a white 

 spot upon the wing, and a kind of collar of paler 

 feathers at the base of the neck. 



Young birds of the year are like the females in 

 autumn, but they have the inferior parts of the body 

 of a duller white, the chest and sides spotted with ash- 

 colour, and they have not, like them, a whitish forehead. 

 At the approach of spring the plumage of the young 

 male blackens wherever it is ash-coloured in the female. 

 One or both lateral tail quills are black with white 

 edges, but this disappears entirely in the males upwards 

 of two years old. In winter there is no difference 

 between males and females. 



The figure of the egg is from a drawing kindly sent 

 me by M. Moquin-Tandon. 



The figure of the bird is a male in summer plumage. 



Bird figured by Eoux, "Ornith. Prov.," pi. 151, male 

 in summer plumage; Gould, "B. of E.," pi. 63, f. 2; 

 Bonteil, "Ornith. du Dauph.," pi. 19, f. 2. 



