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INSECTIVOROUS BIRDS. 



BONAPARTE'S SYLVAN FLYCATCHER. 



(Muscicapa Bonapai'tii, Audubon, pi. 5. Orn. Biog. i. p, 27.) 



Sp. Charact. — Cinereous, front and beneath dull yellow, mixed 

 with grey, the breast sparingly spotted ; tail wedge-shaped. 



This species was discovered by Audubon in a cypress 

 swamp, in Louisiana, on the 13th of August, 1821, which 

 was the only time he ever met with it. Its manners ap- 

 peared very similar to those of the preceding species, 

 and it now uttered merely a plaintive 'iweet. 



Size apparently a little more than 5 inches. Primaries edged with 

 white. Bill pale. Quills-dusky, their outer webs blue ; 2d. prima- 

 ry longest Legs yellowish flesh color. I believe, I have once seen 

 this species in a grove of the Botanic Garden in Cambridge. 



SELBY'S SYLVAN FLYCATCHER. 



(Muscicapa Selbii, Audubon, pi. 9. Orn. Biog. i. p. 46.) 



Sp. Charact. — Olive green, below and line over the eye yellow; 

 tail forked, three lateral feathers with white spots on their inner 

 webs. 



This very rare species was also met with by the above 

 author in the same swamp with the preceding, but in the 

 early part of July, so that it is probably a summer resi- 

 dent in some of the neighbouring Spanish provinces. 



About the size of the preceding. Wings and tail brownish black, 

 edged with yellow, the 3d quill longest. A few spots on the cheeks. 

 Bill almost triangular, dusky. Legs rose flesh-color. 



SMALL-HEADED SYLVAN FLYCATCHER. 



(Musdcapa minuta, Wilson, vi. p. 62. pi. 50 fig. 5, Sylvia mi- 



nuta, BoNAP.) 



Sp. Charact. — Dark yellow-olive ; beneath pale dull yellow ; wings 

 and tail dusky brown ; the wing-coverts tipt with white ; two 

 lateral tail-feathers with a.white spot on the inner vanes. 



