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M. querula. Small Pewee. 



V.S.P. Bill blackish-brown ; tarsi and claws black ; eggs 5, 

 white ; irides hazel. 



Dorsal aspect. Dull olive green, darker on the head ; prima- 

 ries and secondaries brown, the latter edged with brownish-white; 

 orbit surrounded by a ring of the same colour. Tail square, of 

 same colour as the wings, with a minute edging of white on the 

 outer vane of the lateral feathers. 



Ventral aspect. Pale yellowish-white verging to an olive brown 

 on the sides of the breast ; inner wing and tail coverts pale yel- 

 low. 3rd primary longest ; 2nd subequal to 4th ; and 1st to the 

 6th. Length 6 inches; alar breadth 9^ inches. I feel utterly 

 unable to identify this species with the catologue list of Mr. Baird. 

 Genus Setophaga. 



Gen. char. Bill depressed, with nuchal bristles ; both man- 

 dibles of equal length and acute, upper one scarcely notched, 

 scarcely bent at tip, and scarcely inflected on the lower ; 2nd and 

 3rd primaries subequal ; tail long and subcuneiform. The birds 

 of this genus are included under the sub gen. Saxicola of Genus 

 Motacilla of Cuvier. They appear, however, to deserve a separate 

 generic position by themselves, being intermediate between the 

 Muscipetal and Sylvian tribes, possessing the depressed inflected 

 bill of the fc^mer, and the long tail and tarsi of the latter, being . 

 more musical than the former, in fact emulating the latter in 

 point of vocal capacity. 



S. ruticilla. American Redstart. 

 Muscicapa ruticilla^ of Linngeus and Wilson !! 

 Ruticilla minor Americana of Edwards ! 

 Setophagus ruticilla. Baird ! 

 v.s.p. Bill, tarsi, claws and irides black ; eggs 3 to 4, cream 

 white mottled with yellowish-brown. 



Dorsal aspect. Crown of head, nape of neck, dorsal region, 

 rump and scapulars deep black; tail of 12 feathers, long, round, 

 four centre ones black, the others orange, with thin distal halves 

 black; primaries and secondaries, except the outer web of the 1st, 

 and the three or four last secondaries orange at their insertion, and 

 the remainder black, the orange gradually increasing in breadth 

 and depth of tint as far as the secondaries. 



Ventral aspect. Throat, chest, and front of the belly black ; 

 sides of the chest, and wing coverts bright orange ; lower part of 



