L O U I S I A N A T y R A N T, &c. 385 



'^' They have only a chattering note, which they utter with great 

 " vehemence all the time they are fighting. 



" When their young are flown, they are as peaceable as other 

 '' birds. It has a tender bill ; and feeds on infefts only. They are 

 " tame and harmlefs birds. They build their nefl: in an open 

 *' manner, on low trees and fhrubs, and ufually on the /ajfafras- 

 " tree." ' 



Le Tyran de la Loaifiane, De Buffon, iv. 583. — Latham, ii. 358. 264. Louisiana 



Tyrant. 



■pL. With a long flat beak, hooked at the end : head and back 

 cinereous brown : throat clear flate-colour : belly yellowifli : 

 primaries bright bay: on the greater coverts fome lines of white: 

 tail long, of a cinereous brown. Rather inferior in fize to the laft. 

 Inhabits Louifiana, 



Mufcicapa Tyrannus, izK. 5jy?. 325.— la/^^w ii. 355. 265. Fork-Tail. 



Le Tyran a queue fourchue, Briffbn, ii. 395. 



Le Savana, De Buffon, iv. 557. — PL Enl, 571. — Lev. Mus. 



I^L. With head and cheeks black : feathers on the crown yellov/ at 

 their bottoms : upper part of the body afli-colored ; lower 

 white : tail greatly forked -, the two outmoft feathers on each fide 

 five inches longer than the others j color black : the lower half of 

 the exterior feather white. 

 Inhabits C«««i^, and as low as 6'«m(?;». , Plach. 



Yellow-breafted Chat, Ca/fT^j-, i. 50. — Latham, u. t,i^o. ^gg^ Chatter- 



Le Merle verde de la Caroline, Brijbn, ii. 315. — De Buffon, jii. 396. — Ph ing. 



Enl. 627.— Bl. Mus. 



jpL. With the crown, upper part of neck and back, and tail, ofa ci- 

 nereous green : each eye encircled with yellow : from the throat 

 to the thighs of a fine yellow : belly white : tail duiky, edged with 

 white: legs black. Size of a Sky-Lark. 



3 D Inhabits 



