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in Jamaica, and the neighbouring Islands. Is seen in Georgia 

 throughout the summer, in the swamps, and oak woods, but is not 

 a common species. 



The young males, of the second spring, sing like the adult bird, 

 but are scarcely to be distinguished from the females in colour, except 

 in having a yellow bar across the wing, nor do they acquire the full 

 plumage till the end of the second summer. This species is called 

 in Georgia, Broad Tail, as it often hovers on a branch spreading the 

 tail and wings. Mr. Abbot describes the length as six inches and 

 a half, and breadth eight and a half. 



The Amer. Orn. says, it builds on low bushes, in the fork of a 

 small sapling, a few feet from the ground ; the nest of hay, mixed 

 with lichen, and lined with very soft downy substances. The eggs 

 white, sprinkled with grey, and specks of blackish. 



127— RUFOUS AND BLACK FLYCATCHER. 



S3'lvia multicolor, Ind. Om.W. 541. 



Motacilla multicolor, Gm. Lin. i. 97*2. 



Figuier noir et jaune de Cayenne, PI. enl. 391. 2. Baf. v. 314. 



Rufous and black Warbler, Gen. Syn. iv. 493. 



LENGTH five inches. Bill brown ; head, throat, and upper 

 parts of the body and wings, black, the larger coverts tipped with 

 rufous, forming a band on the wing ; sides of the neck and breast 

 rufous ; but the middle of the breast, belly, and vent, is white ; 

 tail from the base to the middle deep rufous, from thence black, the 

 two middle feathers wholly black ; legs brown. 



Inhabits Cayenne, but is rare ; it seems to have so many things 

 in common with the Black-headed Flycatcher, that we cannot but 

 consider it as one remove only from that species. A pair sent from 

 Georgia had the orange very high coloured ; the middle of the 



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