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MUSCICAPA PUSILLA— SWAINSON 



LEAST PEWEE. 



Tyranula pusilla, Little Tyrant Flycatcher, Sw. & Rich 

 Little Tyrant Flycatcher, Muscicapa pusilla, Aud. 

 Little Pewee, Nutt. Man. 



Specific Character — Bill shorter and narrower than M. acadica ; the 

 bands on the wings dull white : third and fourth primaries equal, 

 longer than the second ; first shorter than the sixth. Adult with 

 loral band, ring surrounding the eye, tips of first row of small, and 

 secondary coverts, and the margins of the secondaries, dull white, 

 those markings in M. acadica are dull yellow ; upper parts dull 

 olive brown, slightly tinged with green on the back ; fore neck and 

 fore part of the breast ash gray ; sides of the body much darker ; 

 abdomen and the middle of the lower part of the breast pale yellow ; 

 lateral feathers pale brownish-gray. Length five inches, wing two 

 and three-eighths. 



This not abundant species I have met with on various parts of 

 Long Island ; in the month of June, in company with my friend 

 Phillip Brasher, we obtained two specimens in the woods near 

 Gowannus. I also shot one at Huntington South, and one other 

 between East Hampton and Sag Harbor. The second I met with 

 about the middle of August — the latter in the early part of Sep- 

 tember — and I do not think it improbable that a few breed here, 

 though I have never found its nest. It seems to prefer the woods, 

 is an active, lively bird, and utters a rather loud and quick note. — 

 It is nearly allied to the Small Green Crested Flycatcher, [M. aca- 

 dica,] from which it can at all time be distinguished by the form of 

 the bill. 



