MUSCICAPA ATRICAPILLA. 
PIED FLT^CATCHER, 
Generic Character. 
Bill befet with bridles, upper mandible flattened at the 
bafe, and notched near the tip. 
Other Chara&ers as in the Alauda and Motacilla Ge- 
neras. 
Synonyms. ' 
MUSCICAPA ATRICAPILLA, Lift, Sjft, %. f, 326. 9, 
Ind, Om. 2. 467. 1. 
Pied Fly-catcher. Br, ZooL 135. Ih. fol. 103. 
tab, S.fig, 1. (Mqf.) Ar^, ZooL 2* 
p. 391. B. Ih, Jupt. p. 64. Lathm 
^y^' 3- P- 324. 2. Mont, Om,BiB, 
Vol, 1. Bewick's Br, Birds^ Ft, 1, 
p, 208. 
IjENGTH nearly five incheS;, breadth about nine; bill 
•weak, flightly 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 duilcy, and the 
black not fo deep a hue, and alfo wants the white on the 
forehead, fo confpicuous in the male ; both fexes vary in their 
markings, as is very frequently the cafe with pied birds. 
This 
