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RED-THROATED PIHA. 
Querula rubricollis > Vieillot. 
PLATE I. 
Deep black ; the male with feathers of the throat rigid, nar* 
row, and deep crimson. 
Le grand Gobe-mouche de Cayenne, Bn's. Om. ii. 386, PI. 
Enl. 381 Le Piauhau, Le Vaill. Ois. de VAmeriq. PI. 47, 
48 — Mtiscicapa rubricollis, Lum. Aud Querula rubricollis, 
Vieillot Gal. PI. 115. 
Although by no means scarce, this singular bird 
appears confined to those limited portions of tropical 
America which constitute the colonies of Demerara, 
Surinam, and their immediate neighbourhood. In 
size, and in the general structure of its bill, wings, 
and feet, it bears a stronger resemblance to the 
chatterers than to the flycatchers ; and Le Yail- 
lant, who was also acquainted with its hahits, makes 
no scruple of placing it in the genus Ampdis. Bris- 
son, on the contrary, as well as all the writers of the 
Linn a: an school, regarded it as a flycatcher, influ- 
enced, no doubt, by a consideration of the short but 
strong bristles at the gape, which plainly indicates 
that the bird is insectivorous. Le Vaillant is evi 
