SPECIES 14. MUSCICAPA CANADENSIS* 

 CANADA FLYCATCHER. 

 [Plate XXVL Fig. 2. Male.] 



LINN. Syst. 324. Arct. Zool. p. S38, No. 273. LATHAM, n, 354. 

 PEALE'S Museum, No. 6969. 



THIS is a solitary, and in the lower parts of Pennsylvania, 

 rather a rare species; being more numerous in the interior, par- 

 ticularly near the mountains, where the only two I ever met 

 with were shot. They are silent birds, as far as I could observe; 

 and were busily darting among the branches after insects. From 

 the specific name given them it is probable that they are more 

 plenty in Canada than in the United States; where it is doubt- 

 ful whether they be not mere passengers in spring and autumn. 



This species is four inches and a half long, and eight in ex- 

 tent; front black; crown dappled with small streaks of gray and 

 spots of black; line from the nostril to and around the eye yel- 

 low; 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 round- 

 ing band of black, composed of large irregular streaks; back, 

 wings and tail cinereous brown; vent white; upper mandible 

 dusky, lower flesh coloured; 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 colours differ from thbse of the 

 male. 



* Sylvia pardalina, BONAPARTE, 06s. JVb. 126.~16id.STirop.JVb. 108. 



