SPECIES 15. MUSCICAPA PUSILLA* 

 GREEN BLACK-CAPT FLYCATCHER. 

 [Plate XX VI. Fig. 4. Male.] 

 PEALE'S Museum, JVo. 7785. 



THIS neat and active little species I have never met with in 

 the works 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 com- 

 monly spends its time, during summer, and has a sharp squeak- 

 ing 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* 

 coloured; 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 spe- 

 cies. From her great resemblance, however, in other respects 

 to the male, now first figured, she cannot hereafter be mista- 

 ken. 



* Sylvia Wilsonii, BONAPARTE, 06s. JVb. 126. Ibid. STNOP. 135, 



