140 BirRDS OF MASSACHUSETTS 
2. Muscicapa minuta Wils. SMALL-HEADED FLYCATCHER.— 
The specimens referred to this supposed species by the early 
writers were doubtless the Least Flycatcher (Ampidonax mini- 
mus). 
RECAPITULATION. 
Authentic Birds of the State . : ; : : : 362 
Species. . : ; : : : d : . 320 
Subspecies ; : 5 : 5 ; : 42 
Species noted, but not enumerated for various reasons. 14 
Extirpated Species . , ; : : : ; ; 4 
Extinct species’ | 2 : é : , : : : 2 
Introduced Species ; : ‘ . : : 15 
Species Erroneously Recomied : : : ; 17 
Apocryphal Species 5 2 
Dr. J. A. Allen’s 1886 Tig gave as Folin antrentenne birds of 
the State, three hundred and forty species. Of those we have 
dropped ten for various reasons explained in the text, and have 
added thirty-two species. 
