BIRDS SYLVICOLIDAE CARDIXI.INA. 



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white. The color of the hack, as given in the figure of honapartii, is much more like the usual 

 average of specimens of canadensis than as figured for the latter species. 



List of specimens. 



MYIODIOCTES BONAPARTII, Aud. 



Bonaparte's Flycatcher. 



Museieapa bonaparlii, Add. Orn. Biog. I, 1831, 27; pi. 5. 



Setopkaga honapartii, Rich. List, 1837. 



fVxlsonia honapartii, Bonap. List, 1838. 



Myiodioclcs honapartii, Ald. Syn. 1839, 49.— Ib. Birds Arner. II, 1841, 17 ; pi. 73. 



Sylcania honapartii, Nottall, Man. I, 2d ed. 1840, 332. 



" Bristles longer tlian in the last, second quill longest; tail very long, nearly even ; upper parts light greyish blue ; quills dusky 

 brown, their outer webs greyish blue, the two outer margined witli white ; middle tail feathers and edges of the rest like the 

 back ; lower parts and a band on the forehead ochre yellow, with a few faint dusky spots on the lower part of the fore neck. 



This species differs from the last chiefly in being of a more elongated form, in having the bristles much longer, the upper 

 parts of a much lighter tint ; in wanting the black band down the sides of the neck, and the yellow band over the eye ; the bill 

 is straighter and more pointed, and the outer primaries are edged witli white. Male, 5.4 inches." 



Hah. — Louisiana . 



■ To complete the history of the species of Myiodioctes, I copy the description from Mr. 

 Auduhon of the M. honapartii ; as already stated, however, it is quite likely that it may prove 

 to he only an immature M. canadensis. 



CARDELLINA, Dub us. 



Cardellina, Udbcs, Bp. Consp. Av. I, 1850, 312. 



Ch. — Bill short, compressed ; higher than broad at the base. Culmen gently conve.'i ; tip not decurved ; notch not very 

 prominent. Tail nearly even, about equal to the wings, which is considerably rounded; the first quill about equal to the sixth, 

 the third longest. Colors partly red. 



This genus, in the shortness and compression of its bill, resembles Parus to a considerable 

 degree. The only species I have occasion to mention is entirely red, with white ear patches. 



