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the rare good fortune to see in your company, by which means they have 

 been masterly figured. It is beyond a doubt M. boi-ealis of Richardson, 

 but I beheve Mr Cooper and myself discovered it previously, at least be- 

 fore the appeai-ance of Dr Richardsos's Northern Zoology."" 



In the course of my journey farther eastward, I found this species 

 here and there in Massachusetts and the State of Maine, as far as Mars 

 Hill, and subsequently on the IMagdeleine Islands, and the coast of La- 

 brador ; but I have not yet been able to discover its line of migration, or 

 the time of its arrival in the Southern States. 



MuscicAPA iNORNATA, Nuttall, Nat. Sci. Philad. 



Tyrankus borealis, Northern Tyrant, Swains, and Richards. Fauna Bor. Anier. 



part ii. p. 141. 

 Olive-sided Flycatcher or Pe-pe, Muscicapa Cooperi, Niiltall, Manual, part i. 



p. 282. 



Adult Male. Plate CLXXIV. Fig. 1. 



Bill of moderate length, stout, straight, broad at the base, and taper- 

 ing, compressed only close to the tip ; both mandibles with the dorsal 

 line very slightly convex, the sides rounded, the edges nearly straio-ht, 

 sharp, inclinate ; a slight notch close to the small deflected tip. Nostrils 

 basal, lateral, roundish, partly covered by the bristly feathers. Head 

 rather large, neck short, body rather slender. Feet short ; tarsus com- 

 pressed, covered anteriorly with a few broad scutella ; toes of moderate 

 size, the hind one not proportionally larger, the inner a little shorter than 

 the outer ; claws rather long, arched, much compressed, very acute. 



Plumage soft and blended, with little gloss. Strong bristles at the 

 base of the upper mandible. Wings rather long, second quill lono-est 

 first longer than thii-d, second and third slightly cut out on the outer web • 

 the primaries tapering and rounded. Tail of ordinary length, emargi- 

 nate, of twelve rounded feathers. 



Bill blackish-brown above, the lower mandible brownish-yellow, with 

 the tip dusky. Iris dark hazel. Feet dusky, claws brownish-black. 

 The whole upper parts, with the cheeks and sides of the neck, dusky 

 brown; quills and tail blackish-brown, the secondaries margined with 

 brownish-white. A stripe of greyish-white runs down the fore-neck from 

 the bill, and joins the white of the breast and abdomen, the latter beino- 

 tinged with yellow ; the sides dusky grey. 



Length 1\ inches, extent of wings 12f ; bill along the ridge j\, along 

 the edge l^^^^ 5 tarsus /j. 



