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note, something like the twitterings of chickens nestling under 

 the wings of the hen. On alighting, this sound ceases, and it 

 utters its note as before. It arrives from the south about the 

 middle of May ; builds on the upper side of a limb, in a low, 

 swampy part of the woods, and lays five white eggs. It leaves 

 us about the beginning of September. It is a rare and very 

 solitary bird, always haunting the most gloomy, moist, and 

 unfrequented parts of the forest. It feeds on flying insects, 

 devours bees, and, in the season of huckleberries, they form 

 the chief part of its food. Its northern migrations extend as 

 far as Newfoundland. 



The length of this species is five inches and a half; breadth, 

 nine inches ; the upper parts are of a green olive colour, the 

 lower, pale greenish yellow, darkest on the breast ; the wings 

 are deep brown, crossed with two bars of yellowish white, and 

 a ring of the same surrounds the eye, which is hazel. The 

 tail is rounded at the end ; the bill is remarkably flat and 

 broad, dark brown above, and flesh colour below ; legs and 

 feet, pale ash. The female differs little from the male in 

 colour. 



PEWIT FLYCATCHER. {Muscicapa nunciola) 



PLATE XIII.— Fig. 4. 



Bartram, p. 289. — Blackcap Flycatcher, Lath. Syn. ii. 353. — Phoebe Flycatcher, 

 Id. Sup. p. 173. — Le Gobe-mouche noiratre de la Caroline, Bvff. iv. 541. — 

 Arct. Zool. p. 387, No. 269.— Peak's Museum, No. 6618. 



TYRANNULA FUSC A.— J audine. 

 Muscicapa fusca, Bonap. Synop. p. 68. 



This well-known bird is one of our earliest spring visitants, 

 arriving in Pennsylvania about the first week in March, and 

 continuing with us until October. I have seen them here as 

 late as the 12th of November. In the month of February, I 

 overtook these birds lingering in the low swampy woods of 



