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U. S. p. E. E. EXP. AND SURVEYS — ZOOLOGY — GENERAL EEPOET. 



List of specimens. 



MYIODIOCTES CANADENSIS, Aud 



Canada Flycatcher. 



Miiscieapa canadensis, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. I, 1766, 327. — Gwelin, Syst. Nat. I, 1788, 937. — Wilson, Am. Orn. 



Ill, 1811, 100 ; pi. xxvi, f. S.—Axro. Cm. Biog. II, 1834, 17 ; pi. 103. 

 Setophaga canadensis, " Swainson," Jard. ed. Wilson, 1832. — Rich. List, 1837. — Gray, Genera. 

 Myiodioctes canadensis, Aud. Syn. 1839, 49. — Ib. Birds Amer. II, 1841, 14 ; pi. 72. 

 Euthlypis canadensis, Cabanis, Mus. Hein. 1851, 18. 



Sylvia pardalina, Bonap. Obs. Wilson, 1826, No. 1S6.— Nutt^ll, Man. I, 1832, 372. 

 Sylvicola pardalina, Bon. List, 1838. 

 Myiodioctes pardalina, Bonap. Conspectus, 1850, 315. 

 " Setophaga nigricincta,LiA.FRESNAYE, Rev. Zooi." (Bp.) 



Sp. Ch. — ^Upper parts bluish ash ; a ring round the eye, with a line running to the nostrils, and the whole under part (except 

 the tail coverts, which are white,) bright yellow. Centres of the feathers in the anterior half of the crown, the cheeks, con- 

 tinuous with a line on the side of the neck to the breast, and a series of spots across the fore part of the breast, black. Tail 

 feathers unspotted. Female similar, with the black of the head and breast less distinct. In the young, obsolete. 



Length, 5.34; wing, 2.67 ; tail, 2.50. 



Hab. — Eastern United States to the Mississippi ; south to Guatemala. 



The precise extent of the hlack on the breast varies a good deal in different specimens. The 

 quills vary in length ; sometimes the second is longest, (945,) sometimes the third. In some 

 specimens the outer primary is edged with white. 



I cannot find any tangible difference between the young bird or female of this species and the 

 M. honapartii of Audubon. Thus, in No. 2438, (female in autumn,) there is no black on the 

 head, and scarcely any light line over the eye ; the first primary is conspicuously edged with 



