MUSCICAPINiE. MUSCICAPA. 
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GENUS 11. MUSCICAPA, Linn^us. FLYCATCHER. 
Bill moderate, or rather long, stout, straight, broad at the 
base, gradually compressed toward the end ; upper mandible 
with the dorsal outline sloping, the edges sharp and over- 
lapping, with a very small notch close to the small deflected 
tip ; lower mandible with the ridge very broad at the base, 
the sides rounded, the tip minute and ascending. Nostrils 
basal, roundish. Head rather large, depressed ; neck short ; 
body rather slender. Feet short ; tarsus very short, slender, 
with six very broad scutella, three of which almost meet be- 
hind ; toes free, the hind toe large, all scutellate above ; 
claws rather long very slender, arched, finely pointed. Plu- 
mage soft and blended. Wings long, second and third 
quills longest ; outer primaries generally attenuated at the 
end. Tail long, even, or emarginate. 
* Bill large. Head with a vermilion patch, outer quills atte- 
nuated. Tyrannus of authors. 
54. 1. Muscicapa verticalis. Say. Arkansaw Flycatcher. 
Plate CCCLIX. Fig-. 1. Male. Fig. 2. Female. 
The outer five primaries much attenuated toward the end, the first 
more so, the fifth least, the third longest, but the outer four nearly 
equal ; tail almost even. Upper parts ash-grey, the back tinged with 
yellow ; a patch of bright vermilion on the top of the head ; wing- 
coverts and quills chocolate-brown ; upi^er tail-coverts and tail black, 
the outer web of the lateral feathers yellowish-white ; throat greyish- 
white, sides and fore part of neck ash-grey, the rest of the lower parts 
pure yellow. Female similar. 
Male, 9, ISL 
Columbia River, Rocky Mountains, and across to Texas. Accidental 
in Louisiana. Migratory. 
Tyrannus verticalis, Say Long’s Exped. v. ii. p. 60. 
Arkansaw Flycatcher, Muscicapa verticalis, Bonap. Araer. Orn. v. i. p. 18. 
Muscicapa verticalis, Bonap. Syn. p. 67. 
Arkansaw Flycatcher, Muscicapa verticalis, Nott. Man. v. i. p. 273. 
Arkansaw Flycatcher, Muscicapa verticalis, Aun. Orn. Biog. v. iv. p. 422 ; v. v. 
55. 2. Muscicapa dominicensis, Brisson. Pipiry Flycatcher. 
Plate CLXXII. Male. 
The outer six primaries attenuated at the end, the first more so, the 
