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cheeks deep black, the feathers of the crown bright yellow at the base; back 

 ash-grey, rump bluish-black; wings and tail brownish-black, the lateral 

 feathers of the latter with the outer web white for half its length; lower 

 parts white. 

 Male, 141, 14. 



Gordonia lasianthus, Willd., Sp. PL, vol. iii. p. 480. Pursh, Fl. Amer. Sept., vol. ii. p. 



451. MoNODELPHIA POLYANDRIA, Linn. 



This beautiful small tree is met with in Georgia, South Carolina, and Florida, 

 in moist lands near the coast, and never fails to attract the eye by its beautiful 

 blossoms. The twig from which the drawing was made was procured from the 

 garden of Mr. Noisette, who liberally afforded me all the aid in his power for 

 embellishing my plates. The leaves are evergreen, lanceolato-oblong, shining and 

 leathery; the flowers white, of the size of the common garden-rose, and placed on 

 long peduncles; the capsules conical and acuminate. 



SWALLOW -TAILED FLYCATCHER. 



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-f-MiLvuLtis forficatus, Gmel. 



PLATE LIIL— Male. 



Not having seen this handsome bird alive, I am unable to give you any 

 account of its habits from my own observation; but I have pleasure in sup- 

 plying the deficiency by extracting the following notice from the "Manual 

 of the Ornithology of the United States and of Canada," by my excellent 

 friend Thomas Nttttall. 



"This very beautiful and singular species of Flycatcher is confined wholly 

 to the open plains and scanty forests of the remote south-western regions 

 beyond the Mississippi, where they, in all probability, extend their residence 

 to the high plains of Mexico. I found these birds rather common near the 

 banks of Red River, about the confluence of the Kiamesha. I again saw 

 them more abundant near the Great Salt River of -the Arkansas, in the month 

 of August, when the young and old' appeared, like our King Birds, assem- 

 bling together previously to their departure for the south. They alighted 

 repeatedly on the tall plants of the prairie, and were probably preying upon 



