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without any spots on the breast or sides. The nest was placed in the 

 fork of a small branch of laurel, not above four feet from the groiuid, 

 and resembled that of the Black-capped Warbler. The outer parts were 

 formed of several sorts of mosses, supporting a dehcate bed of slender 

 grasses, carefully disposed in a circular form, and lined with hair. In 

 another nest found near Eastport, in the State of Maine, on the 22d of 

 May, five eggs had been laid, and the female was sitting on them. They 

 were of a transparent whiteness, with a few dots of a bright red colour 

 towards the large end. This nest also was placed in the fork of a small 

 bush, and immediately over a rivulet. 



The flight of the Canada Flycatcher is rather swifter than that of 

 sylviae generally is; and as it passes low amid bushes, the bird cannot be 

 followed by the eye to any considerable distance. Now and then it gives 

 chase on the wing, when the clicking of its bill is distinctly heard. By 

 the 1 st of October not one remained in the Great Pine Forest, nor did I 

 see any in Labrador after the 1st of August. A few were seen in New- 

 foundland in the course of that month, and as I returned through Nova 

 Scotia, these birds, like my own party, were all moving southward. 



MuscicAPA CANADENSIS, Linn. Sjst. Nat. vol. i. p. 32?. 



Sylvia pardalina, Ch. Bonaparte, Synops. of Birds of the United States, p. 79- 



Setophaga Bonapaktii, Swains, and Richards, Fauna Boreali- Americana, Part ii. 



p. 225. 

 Canada Flycatcher, Muscicapa canadensis, Wils. Amer. Ornith. vol. iii, p. 100. 



PI. 26, fig. 2. Male. 



Adult Male. Plate CIII. Fig. 1. 



Bill of moderate length, straight, broad and depressed at the base, 

 acute ; upper mandible slightly notched, and a little inflected at the tip, 

 lower mandible straight. Nostrils basal, lateral, roundish, partly covered 

 by the frontal feathers. Head and neck moderate. Eyes moderate. Body 

 slender. Legs of ordinary size ; tarsus a little longer than the middle 

 toe ; inner toe a little united at the base ; claws compressed, acute, arched. 



Plumage oi-dinary, blended. Wings of ordinary length, the second 

 primary longest. Tail rather long, slightly emarginate, straight. Basi- 

 rostral feathers bristly, and directed outwards. 



Bill pale brown above, flesh-coloured below. Iris deep brown. Feet 

 and claws flesh-coloured and semitransparent. The upper parts are of 

 a light brownish-grey, the quills brown edged externally with paler, as 



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