290 LITTLE TYRANT FLYCATCHER. 



principally toward the apex. Many of the young were able to fly be- 

 fore our departure, which took place on the 12th of August ; and I 

 think that the pair which 1 found breeding must have been later than 

 usual in arriving in that country, as a very few days afterwards I found 

 a good number fully fledged, and travelling along the shore of St George's 

 Bay in Newfoundland. This species may perhaps breed in Nova Sco- 

 tia, as I have seen a specimen obtained there in the collection of my 

 young friend Thomas M'Cctlloch, Esq. of Pictou. 



Tyrannula pdsilla. Swains. Richards, and Swains. Fauna Boreali-Americana, 

 vol. ii. p. 144. 



Adult Male. Plate CCCCXXXIV. Fig. 1. 

 Bill rather short, straight, depressed, triangular when viewed from 

 above ; upper mandible with the sides sloping and somewhat convex, 

 the dorsal line slightly convex, the ridge distinct, the edges thin and 

 overlapping, the tip slightly declinate ; nostrils rather large, elliptical, 

 partially concealed by the feathers ; lower mandible with the angle ra- 

 ther short and wide, the dorsal line ascending and slightly convex, the 

 back broad and flattened at the base, the sides sloping outwards and a 

 little convex, the edges thin, the tip acute. 



Head of moderate size, ovate ; neck rather short ; body slender. 

 Feet of ordinary length ; tarsus slender, compressed, with seven ante- 

 rior scutella, of which the upper are blended, thin-edged behind ; toes 

 rather short, slender, the first stouter, the inner slightly shorter than 

 the outer ; claws rather long, moderately arched, much compressed, 

 laterally grooved, acute. 



Plumage soft, blended, tufty ; the feathers of the head capable of 

 being raised into a crest ; bristly feathers at the base of the bill long. 

 Wings of ordinary length, when closed three-quarters of an inch shorter 

 than the tail ; third quill longest, fourth scarcely shorter, second nearly 

 one-twelfth shorter, and exceeding the first by three and a quarter 

 twelfths. Tail long, slightly emarginate, the middle feathers a twelfth 

 and a half shorter than the outer. 



Bill dusky above, pale yellow beneath. Iris brown. Feet light 

 brown. The general colour of the upper parts is light greenish-brown ; 

 there is a whitish loral band, and a narrow pale ring surrounding the 

 eye. The larger wing-coverts and quills are olive-brown ; the first 

 row of small coverts and the secondary coverts rather largely tipped 



