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length, by f in breadth, pure white ground. The spots are more bold, 

 larger, and of a brighter reddish colour than those of S. Ludoviciana, and 

 are diffused over the whole surface, instead of being crowded toward the 

 larger end, as is the case in the common species. The irides are brownish, 

 and the hairs on the upper eye-lid longer and more numerous. The general 

 colours and markings are much the same in both species, but much paler in 

 the present one. 



FAMILY VII.*— MUSCICAPIN^E. FLYCATCHERS. 

 Genus Il.f — MUSCICAPA, Linn. FLYCATCHER. 



YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHER. 



Muscicapa elaviventris, Bciird. 

 PLATE CCCCLXL Male. 



I am indebted to my young friend Spencer F. Baird, Esq. of Carlisle, 

 Pennsylvania, for specimens of this new Flycatcher, which that gentleman 

 and Wm. M. Baird, Esq. accurately described in Vol. I. of "The Proceed- 

 ings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia," (July and August 

 1S43, Nos. 28, 29, p. 283,) and from which I have made my figure. The 

 following account of its habits, and also the description of its specific 

 characters, are given by the two gentlemen above indicated. 



"This species was first observed in the spring of 1840, near Carlisle, 

 Pennsylvania. During every succeeding spring since, it has been seen in 

 greater or less numbers, and several specimens procured each year. Its 

 habits are much like those of the other species of this genus; it frequents 

 low thickets near small streams, is seldom found in large woods like T. 

 acadica, or T. virens, and is a very unsuspicious bird, allowing persons to 

 approach within a short distance. It probably goes farther north than 

 Pennsylvania to breed, having never been observed after the latter part of 

 May or beginning of June." 



* See vol. i. p. 195. t Ibid. p. 198. 



