BIRDS OF NORTH AMEF ICA. 691 
Head, neck, and back, sooty brown ; remainder, except middle of breast, 
abdomen, and lower tail-coverts, which are white, grayish brown. Male,7. 
Habitat, Mexico and California. 
Muscicapa nigricans, Aud. v. 302; plate 434; Syn. p. 42. 
67. Muscicapa Phebe, Lath. —Short-legged Pewit. 
Upper parts, olivaceous brown; fore part of neck, breast, and sides, 
light dusky gray, tinged with olive; abdomen, pale dull yellow. Male, 64. 
Habitat, Cofantia iver, Fur Countries, and Labrador. Nests in low 
tushes. Eggs, seven, light blue, spotted with small brown specks. 
Tyrannula Richardsonii, Swain, § Rich. ii. 146.— Muscicapa Richardsonii, Aud. 
v. 299 ; plate 434; Syn. p. 42. 
68. Muscicapa Traillii, Aud. — Traill’s Flycatcher. 
Upper parts, dusky olive; head, darker; grayish ring round the eye ; 
two bands of grayish white on wing ; secondaries, margined with same ; 
throat and breast, ash gray ; abdomen, pale yellow. Habitat, Arkansas 
and Columbia River. Male, 53, 84. 
Muscicapa Traillii, Aud. i, 236; v. 426 ; plate 45; Syn. p. 43 
69. Muscicapa pusilla, Swain. — Least Pewee. 
Upper parts, light greenish brown ; wings, olive brown, with two bands 
of dull white ; secondaries, margined with same; tail, olive brown; neck, 
breast, and sides, ash gray ; under parts, pale yellow. Male, 54. Habi- 
tat, Columbia River, Fur Countries, Labrador, and Newfoundland. Nests 
in bushes. Eggs, five, white, thinly spotted with red. 
Tyrannula pusilla, Rich. & Swain. ii. 144.— Muscicapa pusilla, Aud. v. 288; plate 
434; Syn. p. 44. 
SUBGENUS CULICIVORA, Swain. 
70, Muscicapa czrulea, Lath. — Blue-gray Flycatcher, Wilson, p. 
199. 
Muscicapa cerulea, Wutt. 1.297. ud. i. 431; plate 84.—Sylvia cwrulea, Bonap. 
Syn. p. 85. — Culicivora cerulea, Aud. Syn. p. 46. | 
GENUS II.— PTILOGONYS, Swain. 
71. Ptilogonys Townsendi, Aud. —'Townsend’s Ptilogonys. 
General color, dull brownish gray ; quills and coverts, dusky brown ; 
edge of wing, dull white; secondaries, with a faint patch of light brownish 
gray on the outer web towards the end; middle tail-feathers, grayish 
brown, the rest blackish brown; paler underneath. Habitat, Columbia 
River. Female, 83. Nest and eggs, unknown. 1 
Ptilogonys Townsendi, Aud. v. 206; plate 419; Syn. p. 46. 
FAMILY V.—LANIADA, Figors. 
GENUS LANIUS.—SHRIKE. 
72. Lanius borealis, Vieill.— Great American Shrike, Wilson p. 49. 
Lanius borealis, Rich. § Swain. ii. 111. Mutt. i. 258.—Lanius septerk onalis, 
Bonap, Syn. p. 72. — Lanius excubitor, Aud. i. 534; v. 534; plate 192.- Lanius 
borealis, Aud. Syn. p. 157. 
