AUDUBON JOURNAL 



Suddenly and unexpectedly, and then would hop 

 round the room as quick as a Carolina or Winter 

 Wren would have done, uttering its tweet tweet tweet 

 all the while, and Snapping every time I took it up. 

 I put it in a Cage for a few Moments but it obstinatly 

 forced the fore part of its head through the Lower 

 part of the Wires and I relieved it by Confining it in 

 My hat for the Night anxious to see More of its Move- 

 ments — 



Joseph unwell With a sick head Hacke— Length of 

 the Cypress Swamp Fly Catcher Muscicapa Rara, 5 J Inches 

 — breadth 7f Inches [upp] Whole upper parts hand- 

 some ash Color appearing blue at a distance, the 

 front of the Head mixed with Yellow, a Yellow Line 

 Surround the Eye that is very Large Iriss deep brown, 

 pupil Black, between the eye & Bill & under the eye 

 shaded with darker ash Tail Coverts Ughter than the 

 back, tail shghtly forked of 12 Feathers all plain 

 bronish ash shafts deep brown as well as those of the 

 wings under tail Coverts Long & White — the Throat 

 breast belly & Vent Rich citron Yellow without in- 

 termission of Shade in any of these parts. Breast spotted 

 with black [spots] forming small chains faUin to the 

 beginning of the spurious wings — Bill, hooked at the 

 Tip and broad at the base. Legs feet & Claws horn 

 Colors the last Long & Sharp Nostrils very prominent. 

 Tongue much Jagged, Mouth flesh color'i & furnish 

 outwardly With Many Long black bristles — it proved a 



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