232 FLYCATCHER. 



composed of black spots, and communicating with the black lore; 

 wings and tail somewhat darker than the back. This seems to differ 

 from the other in sex ; is said to be solitary, in the lower part of 

 Pennsylvania rather scarce ; more common in the interior, especially 

 among the mountains. Only two specimens were met with. Mr. 

 Vieillot thinks it much allied to the Blackburnian Warbler. 



126. -BLACK-HEADED FLYCATCHER. 



Muscicapa Ruticilla, Lid. Orn. ii. 473. Lin. i. 236. Gm. Lin. i. 935. Vieill. Am. i. 



p. 66. pi. 35. 36. Amer. 0m. \. pi. 6. f. 6.— male. Id. v. p. 119. pi. 45. f. 2.— 



female. 

 Muscicapa Americana, Bris. ii. 383. Id. 8vo. i. 264. 

 Motacilla flavicauda, Gm. Lin. i. 997. 



Serine- affinis e croceo et nigro varia, Raii, 188. Sloan. Jam. 312. Klein, 89. 

 Ruticilla Americana, Redstart, Bartr. Tr. 290. 

 Le petit noir Aurore, Buf. iv. 546. 

 Gobe-mouche d'Amerique, PI. enl. 566. 1. 



Small American Redstart, Ediv. pi. 80. Cates. Car. i. pi. 67. — male. 

 Yellow-tailed Flycatcher, Edw. pi. 257. — female. 



Warbler, Arct. Zool. ii. No. 301. 



Black-headed Warbler, Gen. Syn. iv. 427. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 282.— male. Id. 301.— 



female. Shaw's Zool. x. 362. 



SIZE of the Pettichaps ; length four inches and three quarters. 

 Bill blackish, base broad, and bristly ; head, neck, and upper parts, 

 black ; wings black, with an orange bar across the middle ; sides of 

 the body orange ; belly, thighs, and vent, pale orange ; tail orange, 

 with one-third of the feathers from the end black, but the two middle 

 ones are wholly black ; legs brown. 



In the female the upper parts are brownish ash-colour, the under 

 white; wings, sides of the body, and tail, the same as in the male, but 

 yellow instead of orange. 



Inhabits the shady woods of North America, as far as Hudson's 

 Bay in summer; departing southward in winter; at that time found 



