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the branclies after insects. From the specific name given tliem it is 

 probable that they are more plenty in Canada than in the United States ; 

 •where it is doubtful whether they be not mere passengers in spring and 

 autumn. 



This species is four inches and a half long, and eight in extent ; front 

 black ; crown dappled with small streaks of gray and spots of black ; line 

 from the nostril to and around the eye yellow ; below the eye a streak 

 or spot of black, descending along the sides of the throat, which, as well 

 as the breast and belly, is brilliant yellow, the breast being marked with 

 a broad rounding band of black, composed of large irregular streaks ; 

 back, wings and tail cinereous brown ; vent white ; upper mandible 

 dusky, lower flesh colored ; legs and feet the same; eye hazel. 



Never having met with the female of this bird I am unable at present 

 to say in what its colors differ from those of the male. 



. Species XV. MUSCICAPA PUSILLA* 



GREEN BLACK-CAPPED FLYCATCHER. 



[Plate XXVI. Fig. 4, Male.] 



This neat and active little species I have never met with in the worLs 

 of any European naturalist. It is an inhabitant of the swamps of the 

 Southern States, and has been several times seen in the lower parts of 

 the states of New Jersey and Delaware. Amidst almost unapproachable 

 thickets of deep morasses it commonly spends its time, during summer, 

 and has a sharp squeaking note, nowise musical. It leaves the Southern 

 States early in October. 



This species is four inches and a half long, and six and a half in 

 extent ; front line over the eye and whole lower parts yellow, brightest 

 over the eye and dullest on the cheeks, belly and vent, where it is 

 tinged with olive ; upper parts olive green ; wings and tail dusky brown, 

 the former very short ; legs and bill flesh colored ; crown covered with 

 a patch of deep black ; iris of the eye hazel. 



The female is without the black crown, having that part of a dull 

 yellow olive, and is frequently mistaken for a distinct species. From 

 her great resemblance, however, in other respects to the male, now first 

 figured, she cannot hereafter be mistaken. 



* Sylcia Wilsonii, Bonaparte, Obs. No. 126.— Ibid. Svnop. 135. 



