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Show 260 AVJ<~S. Others whose b eak ·l S a 1s o broad and depressed, are remarkable for their l' ong 1e gs an d s h or t tail · Two or three only are knbo wn,. all f m Ameri. ca; they ~le e d on Ants ' which caused them to e ufm tle'd toro the h.t tle tn.b e o f Th rus h es called Ant-catchers, Myotherre o I h· ger.(l) MusoiOAPA, Cuv. The Flycatc h ers, propel· ly so called ' ha.v e . sho.r ter mustac.h ios and a narrower be ak than the Muscipetre; 1t 1ds st1ll, hdo weve1"t , bdtle · pressed with an acute ridge above, straight e ges, an a s Ig y hookedTpwoion ts. pec1. es of this subgenus are found in France during the summer, an d lead a melancholy life on high trees. The most common is, M . gn.s o l a, Gm · Enl · 565 • 1• (The Grey Fly. -catcher.) Grehy above, whitish underneath, with a few greyish spots on .t e breast. In some countries it is kept in houses to destroy fhes. The other, M. albicollis, Tern.; Gobe-mouche a collier, Enl. 563, 2 and 3; and better, Hist. des Ois. tom. IV in 4to, pl. 25, f. 2, the male in wedding plumage; Naum. 65, in its different states. (The Collared Flycatcher.) Very remarkable for the chang:s of the male's plumage. Similar in winter to the femal~; that 1s, ?rey, with a white band on the wing. In the nupt1al season 1t be· comes agreeably variegated, with pure black and white; calotte, back, wings and tail, black; the forehead, collal', and all the upper part of the body, a large spot on the wing, a smal~er one in front, and the external edge of the tail, white. It bu1lds on the trunks of trees.(2) . A species subject to the same changes has lately been disco· been placed among the Todies, and although Pallas has set us the exam~le .01 doing so, the notch in the beak, and the separation of the external toe forbid It Add, Plat. olivaceus, T. Col. XII, 1, or sulfureseens, Spix, XII.-Plat. cancromm, Id. lb. 2. h eas (1) Here come Turdus auritus, Gm., Enl. 822, and Vieill. Gal. 127, t e sam ~ Pt•p ra leucott.s but wlu. ch 1. s ne.t ther a T 11 rush nor a p·1 pra.--p ~' :pra nHJVia • En!. 82"' f.. 2. It 1. s up'o n t h'1 s d't stm. ct1. 0n t h at v·1 e1'1 1 . h as .1:o' und e d ht's genus CoNOl'Ol'liJ.&l, Galer. 127. . . . . . d l in its ordi· (2) The anctents knew thts btrd by the names of Syealls and Flee u a, . . . nary plumage, and by that of Melaneorhynelws and .!ltn· eap~' lla , ·m 1't s "v edd.m g !Iveryto, but as the name of Bec-figue (Beeea-.fico ), is given in the south, and m It~by,t var1. ous spect. es of Fauvet and Jlnthus, naturah.s ts have app1 t' e d t h e um. t ed attrl u e5 of these birds to a certain state of this Flycatcher, and forme d t h e ·tm a ginary hsap ee· cies presented by this same name of Bec-figue in Buffon, and in those who v PASSERINJE. 261 vered; the neck of the male, however, in the nuptial season, being as black as the back, and wanting the little white spot on the edge of the wing. It is the M. luctuosa, Tern.; Naum. 64; Edw. 30, I; The female, Enl. 668, 1. Which is found farther north than the preceding. A small reddish species has lately been discovered in Germany. M parva, Bechst.; Naum. 65, 3. The beak of the Flycatchers becomes more and more slender, and finally approaches that of several species of Regulus.(!) Some species in which the ridge is somewhat higher, and arched towards the point, lead to the forms of the Saxicolre.(2) Various genera or subgenera of birds are closely allied to certain links in the series of Flycatchers, although they greatly exceed them in size, viz. GYMNOOEPHALus, Geoff. Or the Bald Tyrants. They have a beak similar to that of the Tyrants, except that its ridge is somewhat more arcuated; a great part of their face is destitute of feathers. followed him. It is very certainly the M. albieollis, and not the M. luetuosa, that is the Becca-.fico of Aldrovandus, Ornith. n, 758 and 759. (1) We also refer to the true Flycatchers, the Gillit (Muse. bicolor), Enl. 675, 1. -Le Pririt, Vaill. 161; Enl. 567, 1 and 2 (M. senegalensis, Gm. ).-M. albieapilla, Vieill. Am. 37.-M. armillata, lb. 4, 2.-M. diops, Tern., 144, 1.-M. eximia, lb. 2.-M. ventralis, Id. Col. 27 5, 2.-M. vireseens, lb. 3.-.M. obsoleta, Ib. 1. M. flabellifera, lb., Gmel. Lath. Syn. ll, partl, pl. 4-9.-M. scrita, Vaill. Afr. 154.-M. ruticilla, Gm. Enl. 556: Vieill. Am. 35 and 36; Wils. I, vi, 6.-Platyr. paganus, Spix.-Pl. marinus, Id. 2.-Pipra elata, Id. VIII, 2. See Jlpp. XIV. of .!lm. Edit. (2) Such are the Oranor, Vaill. IV, 155, and several neighbouring species, similar to the Muse. ruticilla, so far as regards the distribution of colours, but differing in the beak, such as Muse. miniata, Tern. or Turdus speeiosus, Lath. Col. 156. -M. .flammea, Forst. Zoo!. Ind. 25 and Tern. Col. 263, or Parus malabaricus, Lath. -M. hyacintltina, Col. 30.-The .!lztwoux (M.azurea), Vaill. Afr.158, 2.-M. niger-rima, Vieill, Diet. Spix, 18, 1.-M. galeata, Spix, 17, a different species.-M. stetlata, Vieill., Vaill. 157, 2. M lrmgipes, ot· the Miro-Mi1·o of New Zealand, Less. an~ Garn. Voy. de Duper. Zool. pl. 19, 1. M. ehrysomelas, lb. pl. 18.-M. nivea, Spit, 29, 1. M ieteropltis, Vieill., Dict.-M. mirundinacea, Tern. Col. 119.-The Muse. multicolor, Gm. Lath. Syn. 2, is so intermediate between the Flycatchers and the Mot. phrenieurus, that we hesitate to assign its position . The species of this type which have the strongest beaks appear to constitute the DRIMOPHILES of M. Temminck. N.B, The .Mus jlabellifera has become the genus RiFIDURA of Vi g. and Horsf. 3and theM. rutieilla, the S:&TOFHA.GA of Swainson. The .M. sternura, T. Col. 167, • is the STERNUR.A. of Swains.: and the species whose head is enlarged by feathers, :uch. as the M. australis, White, p. 239, his genus, PACJIYCE.PHA.LA., The neigh-ounng genus, S:Eisun.&, ia formed from the Turdu8 volitans, Lath. |