MUSCICAPA ATRICAPILLA. 



PIED' FLT-CATCHER. 



Generic Character. 



pill befet with briftles, upper mandible flattened at the 



bafe, and notched near the tip. 

 [Other Characters as in the Alauda and Motacilla Ge- 



Ineras. 

 Synonyms. 



MUSCICAPA ATRICAPILLA. Lilh SyJI. 1. p. 326. 9, 



Ind. Dm. 2./', 467. 1. 

 'Pied Fly-catcher. Br, ZooL 135. 3. foL 103. 



tak S,fig. 1. (Maf.) Am. Zool 2» 



p. 391. B, Ik Jkpl, p. 64. Laih. 



Syn. 3. />. 324. 2. Mont, Orn. BiB, 

 ^ Vol. 1. Bewick's Br. Birds, Pi, 1. 



p, 208. 



I-iE N G T H nearly five inchesj breadth about nine ; bill 

 ■weak, nightly notched at the tip ; irides dark hazel ; legs and 

 claws flender ; the female is rather lefs, and has the colours 

 ' more blended, the white parts approaching to dufky, and the 

 black not fo deep a hue, and alfo wants the white 011 the. 

 forehead, fo confpicuous in the male ; both fexes vary in their 

 markings, as is very frequently the cafe with pied birds. 



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