Flycatchers

Muscicapinae

Bill depressed, triangular, compressed at the end, upper mandible notched, lower with the point slightly ascending. Head rather large, depressed; neck short; body rather slender. Feet generally short; tarsus short, slender, with very broad scutella; toes four, free; the hind toe not proportionally large; claws arched, compressed, acute. Plumage soft and blended. Wings long, with the first quill generally long, the outer three longest. Tail various. Tongue flattened, sagittate, bristly at the tip; oesophagus wide, without crop; stomach elliptical, moderately muscular, with the lateral muscles distinct; the epithelium thin, dense, longitudinally rugous; intestine short; coeca extremely small; cloaca globular. Trachea simple; inferior laryngeal muscles forming on each side a large pad, but not divisible into several portions as in the singing birds. Nests regularly formed, cup-shaped. Eggs from four to six.

Genus I : Flycatcher

Arkansaw Flycatcher, Swallow-Tailed Flycatcher, Says Flycatcher
Plate 359
Tyrant Fly-catcher
Plate 79
Great Crested Flycatcher
Plate 129
Pewit Flycatcher
Plate 120
Small Green Crested Flycatcher
Plate 144
Wood Pewee
Plate 115
Traill's Flycatcher
Plate 45
American Redstart
Plate 40

Genus II : Gnat-catcher

Blue-Grey Fly-catcher
Plate 84

Genus III : Swallow-tail

Fork-tailed Flycatcher
Plate 168

About This Guide

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