BLACK-CAP FLYCATCHER. 385 



Brown Flycatcher, with the under parts yellowish white ; the 



top of the head of the male black, of the female yellowish; tail 



slightly forked. 

 Muscicapa fusca. Gmel. Syst. Nat. l. 931. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 



483. 63. Vieil. Ois. de I 9 Amer. Sept. 1. 68. 

 Muscicapa Carolinensis fusca. Briss. Orn. 2. 367 & 

 Muscicapa Phoebe. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 489, 88 - female. 

 Muscicapa atra. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 946. female. 

 Muscicapa Dunciola. Wils. Amer. Orn. 2. 78. 

 Le Gobe-mouche noiratre de la Caroline. Buff. Hist. Nat. Oi&. 



4.541. 

 Le Moucherolle noir&tre, ou le Pewit. Vieil. Ois. de I' Amer. 



Sept. 1.68. pi. 40. 



Dusky Flycatcher. Pen. Arct. Zool. 2. 275. female. 

 Phceby Flycatcher. Lath. Syn. Sup. 173. 79. 

 Pewee Flycatcher. Wils. Amer. Orn. 2. 78.^. 13. f. 4. 

 Black-cap Flycatcher. Pen. Arct. Zool. 2. 269. Lath. Gen. 



Syn. 3. 353. 53.Catesb. Carol. 1. pi. 53. 



THIS bird inhabits many parts of North America: 

 it is rather more than six inches in length : the 

 male has the top of his head black: the upper 

 parts of the body, quills, and tail, brown ; the latter 

 slightly forked : the beak and legs black : the 

 female has her head dusky ; the top of it yel- 

 lowish : the upper parts of her body dull olive 

 grey : the quills and secondaries dusky, and the 

 latter with the margins white : breast pale ash : 

 belly yellowish: tail similar to the wings, with 

 part of the outer web of the exterior feathers 

 white. 



This species builds its nest in caves, sheds, 

 under the eaves of outhouses, and such like places: 

 it lays five pure white eggs, marked at the larger 

 end with three or four red dots ; it has often three 



