FLYCATCHER. 243 



the passing insects, spying them even at 300 feet distance, and 

 bringing them back to the place it sprang from to eat them ; 

 sometimes will catch them on the wing like the Swallow. The nest 

 is not at all concealed, flat, and just large enough to contain three 

 or four white eggs, surrounded with a zone of reddish at the large 

 end. The young soon attain the adult plumage. 



141— LOUISIANE FLYCATCHER. 



Muscicapa Ludoviciana, Ind. Orn. ii. 486. Gm. Lin. i. 934. Vieill. Am. i. p. 75. 



Le Tyran de la Louisiane, Buf. iv. 583. 



Louisiane Flycatcher, Gen. Syn.'m. 358. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 264. 



SIZE of the last. Bill long, flat, a trifle bent, and furnished 

 with hairs at the base ; head, neck behind, and back, grey brown ; 

 throat slate-colour ; belly yellowish ; on the greater wing coverts 

 a mixture of white ; quills pale rufous ; tail cinereous brown, edged 

 with rufous. 



Inhabits Louisiana ; thought by M. Vieillot to be the same with 

 the last. 



142— YELLOW-CROWNED FLYCATCHER. 



Muscicapa audax, Ind. Orn. ii. 486. Gtn. Lin. i. 934. 



Le Suiriri tachete en dessous, Voy. d 'Azara, iii, No. 187. 



Gobe-mouche tachete de Cayenne, PI. enh 453. 2. 



LeCaudec, Buf. iv. 582. 



Yellow-crowned Flycatcher, Gen. Syn. iii. 358. Shaw's Zool. x. 369. 



LENGTH eight inches. Bill stout, black, one inch and a quarter 

 long, bent at the tip, and hairy at the base ; irides brown ; crown 

 of the head yellow; forehead, between that and the ejes, the chin, 

 and throat, white; through the eye a dusky streak; upper parts of 

 the body and wings dusky, the feathers edged with rufous brown ; 



I i2 



