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96. Muscicapa fusca, Bonaparte, Phosbe, common. 



97. M. rapax, Wilson, Wood Pewee, Stratford and New Haven. 



98. M. Acadica, Gmelin, (querula of Wilson,) Small Pewee, 

 Stratford. [Common in gardens in New Haven. — J. D. W.] 



99. M. Traillii, Audubon, Trail's Fly-catcher, Stratford. 



100. M. Tyrannus, Brisson, King-bird, common. 



*101. M. crenata, Linn., Great-crested Fly-catcher, Stratford 

 and New Haven. 



102. M. Cooperii? Nuttall, Olive-sided Fly-catcher, Stratford. 



103. M. coerulea, Wilson, Blue Grey Fly-catcher, Stratford. 



104. Icterea viridis, Bonaparte, Yellow-breasted Icterea, New 

 Haven. [Haunts the vicinity of springs, and builds in watered 

 hollows.— J. D. W.] 



105. Yireo flavifrons, Bonaparte, Yellow-throated Fly-catcher, 

 Stratford and New Haven. 



*106. V. solitarius, Vieill., Solitary Vireo, Stratford and New 

 Haven. 



107. V. Noveboracensis, Bonaparte, White-eyed Yireo, com- 

 mon at New Haven. 



*108. V. gilvus, Bonaparte, Warbling Yireo, Stratford and 

 New Haven. 



109. Y. olivaceus, Bonaparte, Red-eyed Yireo, Stratford and 

 New Haven. 



Family Lanidce. 



*110. Lanius borealis, Richardson, Butcher Bird, Stratford and 

 New Haven. 



*111. L. Carolinensis, Audubon, Loggerhead Shrike, Stratford. 



*101. A specimen of the great-crested fly-catcher, was shot by me in the spring 

 of 1838, in my front yard, the only living individual of this bird I have seen in 

 this state. 



*106. The solitary vireo I took here last fall, but it is extremely rare. 



*108. Of the Vireo gilvus I have taken several specimens, differing very much 

 in their plumage. The under parts of one were mostly bright yellow. 



*110. The Lanius borealis in January, 1841, killed a robin here, by one blow of 

 his little foot in the throat of the robin, and though I found on taking both imme- 

 diately after, that the robin weighed about a quarter more than the butcher-bird, 

 yet he carried the robin on the wing with perfect ease. Another, a few years 

 since, made an attack upon a cage of Canary birds hanging in my sitting-room, 

 myself and family present, and within a few feet of the cage. The former had 

 the bones and flesh of a mouse in his stomach, which proved him guilty of conduct 

 not before charged to him. 



*111. I shot a specimen of the loggerhead shrike in Georgia, which I now 

 have in my cabinet, and have long supposed it to be occasionally found here. 



