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brown ; breast whitish ; sides spotted with black ; belly white ; 

 back greenish ash-colour, striped with black ; rump inclining to 

 ash, and spotted with black ; on the wing coverts two bars, the 

 upper one yellowish white, the lower white; tail brown, the outer 

 feather with a spot of white on the inner web, the second the same, 

 but smaller ; the third only margined with white within ; legs 

 yellow, claws pale brown. 



The female has a greenish yellow head, streaked with slender 

 black lines ; over the eyes a line of yellow ; eyelids yellow ; throat, 

 cheeks, and breast, whitish yellow, sprinkled with oblong spots of 

 brown, from the sides of the mouth to the breast ; the rest as in the 

 male, but more green on the back, and streaked more sparingly. 



Inhabits North America, found at Severn River, only in summer, 

 and feeds on grass seeds, &c. 



116.— CINEREOUS FLYCATCHER. 



Muscicapa virens, Ind.Orn.W. 482. Lin. i. 327. GmLin.i. 936. 



Carolinensis cinerea, Bris. ii. 368. Id. 8vo. i. 261. Klein, 74. 7. 



Gobe-mouche brun de la Caroline, Bvf. iv. 543. 



Little brown Flycatcher, Cates. Car. i. 54. 



Cinereous Flycatcher, Gen. Syn. iii. 350. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 270. Shaw'sZool. x. 363. 



SIZE of the Spotted Flycatcher ; length six inches. Bill black, 

 depressed at the base, tip curved, yellow ; head and upper parts 

 dark ash-colour; the under yellowish white; wings brown, the 

 second quills edged with white; tail even, brown, the outer web of 

 the exterior feather yellowish half way from the base ; legs slender, 

 black. The female differs but little, but is darker; but few hairs at 

 the base of the bill in either sex. 



Inhabits Carolina in summer, and departs in Autumn. Found 

 in Georgia, where it is generally seen the whole year ; builds the 

 middle of May, in the hollow of an oak ; the nest composed of 

 swamp moss, pieces of the shed skin of a snake, and a few feathers; 



