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134.— MINUTE FLYCATCHER. 



Muscicapa minuta, Minute Flycatcher, Am. Orn. vi. 62. pi. 5. f. 5. 



LENGTH five inches, extent of wing eight. Bill broad at the 

 base, furnished with bristles, and notched near the tip ; irides dark 

 hazel ; head remarkably small ; the upper parts of the plumage dull 

 yellow olive ; wings dusky brown, edged with lighter ; greater and 

 lesser coverts tipped with white ; body beneath dirty white, tinged 

 with dull yellow, particularly on the upper part of the breast; tail 

 dusky brown, with a white spot on the inner vanes of the two exterior 

 feathers ; feet yellowish. 



Inhabits North America ; found in the swamps of New Jersey in 

 June, where it is supposed to breed ; the one from which the above 

 description is taken, shot in an orchard, 24th April. 



135— FORK-TAILED FLYCATCHER. 



Muscicapa Tyrannus, Ind. Orn. ii. 484. Lin. i. 325. Gm. Lin. i. 931. Vieill. Am. i. 



p. 72. pi. 43. 

 Tyrannus cauda bifurca, Bris. ii. 395. t. 39. 3. Id. 8vo. i. 268. 

 Savana, Tyran a Queue fourchue, Buf. iv. 557. pi. 26. PL enl. 571. 2. 

 Les petits Ciseaux, Voy. d'Azara, iii. No. 190. 

 Muscicapa Nunciola, Pewit, or Black Cap Flycatcher, Bartr. 287. 

 Fork-tailed Flycatcher, Gen. Syn. iii. 355. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 365. 



SIZE in the body of a large Lark ; length fourteen inches. Bill 

 black, at the base a few bristles ; upper part and sides of the head 

 black ; on the middle of the crown the feathers are yellow at the 

 base ; neck behind, back, rump, and scapulars, cinereous ; upper tail 

 coverts black ; all the under parts white ; lesser wing coverts cine- 

 reous, greater brown ; quills brown, with the inner margins white ; 

 tail greatly forked, the outer feather being nine inches in length, and 



