MARTINICO FLYCATCHER. 377 



THIS elegant species is a native of New York : 

 the crown of its head, upper parts of the neck and 

 body, are dirty oliv& green : the throat and margin 

 of the wings splendid yellow: the primary quills 

 and tail rich olive green : breast and belly white, 

 tinged with yellow. 



MARTINICO FLYCATCHER. 



(Muscicapa Martinica.) 



Mu. capite cristato, corpore fusco subtus cinereo, remigum 

 margine exteriore albido. 



Flycatcher with a crested head ; the body brown ; beneath ash- 

 coloured ; the outer margins of the quills whitish. 



Muscicapa martinica. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 325. 3. Gmel. Syst* 

 Nat.,1. 930. Lath. Ind. Om. 2. 483. 62. 



Muscicapa martinica cristata. Briss. Orn. 2. 362. 3. pi. 3G.f. 2. 



Muscicapa albicapilla. Vieil. Ois. de VAmer. Sept. 1. 66. 

 (female ?) 



Gobe-mouche huppe de la Martinique. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 

 4. 540. Buff. PI. Enl. 568. f. 1. 



Le Moucherolle a huppe blanche. Vieil. Ois. de I'Amer. Sept. 

 1. 66. pi. 37. female? 



Martinico Flycatcher. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 352. 52. 



THE Martinico Flycatcher is rather larger than 

 M. grisola : it is in length six inches : its beak is 

 brown : the head and upper parts of the body 

 brown : feathers of the crown of the head long, 

 and capable of being set up in the manner of a 

 crest: the quills are brown, margined with whitish : 

 under parts of the plumage cinereous : tail brown : 

 legs grey. Inhabits Martinique. 



