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[ Wilsonta minuta. " Small-headed Flycatcher." An 

 unknown species, conjectured to belong to this genus, 

 and repeatedly attributed to New England. Berk- 

 shire County, Mass., Peabody, Rep. Birds Mass., 1839, 

 p. 297; Putnam, Pr. Essex Inst., i, 1856, p. 226. 

 Salem, Mass., Nuttall, Man. Orn., i, 1832, p. 297. 

 Ipswich, Mass., Brewer. Mass., "doubtful," Allen, 

 Pr. Essex Inst., iv, 1864, p. 83. New England, 

 "rather an apocryphal species," Coues, Pr. Essex Inst., 

 v, 1868, p. 275. Wenham, Mass., without comment, 

 Brewer, Pr. Bost. Soc., xvii, 1875, p. 440 ! The name 

 has dropped out of most of the recent lists, and should 

 not be restored without good authority. C.~\ 



CANADIAN FLYCATCHING WARBLER. 

 WILSONIA CANADENSIS (Z.) Coues. 



Chars. Above, ashy-blue ; crown with many black arrow-heads, 

 crowded anteriorly ; a slight line on forehead, short supraciliary 

 line, edges of eyelids, and whole under parts, excepting the white 

 under tail-coverts, yellow; lore black, continuous with a black 

 stripe along side of head, connecting with a chain of black 

 marks down side of neck and then prettily encircling the throat 

 like a necklace ; wings and tail unmarked ; feet flesh-color ; bill 

 blackish. Female and young similar, the black markings obscure 

 or restricted, the upper parts more or less glossed with olive. 

 Bill and strong rictal bristles as in other species of the genus. 

 Length about 5 35 ; extent, 7.75 ; wing, 2.50 ; tail, 2.25. 



I saw, perhaps a dozen in all, kept much together, as if they were 

 a colonial troop, fluttering through the shrubbery, fly-catching very 

 little, touching the ground occasionally, and often having their play- 

 ful quarrels. Their faces and cheeks were of the richest golden yel- 

 low, much of the bill being of the same color; and their song was 

 different from that of the Eastern bird, as I recall it. They were, I 

 take it, of the Western variety (pileolata)" C.~\ 



