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WHITE-COLLARED FLYCATCHER. 
Muscicapa albieollis, Temminck. 
PLATE XXYI. 
Above, black ; front, collar round the neck, and a large 
patch upon the wings, white ; quills brown, their base 
white ; rump greyish-white ; tail-covers entirely black. 
Muscicapa albicollis, Tern. Man. i. 153, PI. Enl. 565, f. 2. — . 
Pied Flycatcher, var. b. Lath.. Sy. iii. 325. 
The annexed figure accurately represents an indi- 
vidual of this species we shot in the island of Si- 
cily, so far back as the year 1 807 ; it is almost the 
only specimen remaining of a large collection of the 
birds of that island, formed in the subsequent five 
years, which has escaped destruction from moths. 
The ground colour of the upper plumage is 
black, but varied with white in the following 
manner : — The front of the head, the collar round 
the nape, and a large spot on the wings, are all 
pure white; this latter spot is longitudinal, and 
spreads over the tertials and a portion of the larger 
wing-covers ; there is a hand of white at the base 
of the secondaries, and a much narrower one on 
