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CANADA FLYCATCHER. 

 MUSCICAPA CANADEjYSIS. 

 [Plate XXVI.— Fig. 2.] 



Linn. Syst. 324>.—Jrct. Zool. p. 338, No. 273.— Latham, II, 354. — Pe ale's Museum, 



No, 6969. 



THIS is a solitary, and in the lower parts of Pennsylvania, 

 rather a rare species ; being more numerous in the interior, parti- 

 cularly near the mountains, where the only two I ever met with 

 were shot. They are silent birds, as far as I could observe ; and 

 were busily darting among the branches after insects. From the 

 specific name given them it is probable that they are more plenty 

 in Canada than in the United States ; where it is doubtful whether 

 they be not mere passengers in spring and autumn. 



This species is four inches and a half long, and eight in ex- 

 tent; front black; crown dappled with small streaks of grey and 

 spots of black; line from the nostril to and around the eye yellow; 

 below the eye a streak or spot of black, descending along the sides 

 of the throat, which, as well as the breast and belly, is brilliant 

 yellow, the breast being marked with a broad rounding band of 

 black, composed of large irregular streaks ; back, wings and tail 

 cinereous brown ; vent white ; upper mandible dusky, lower flesh 

 colored; legs and feet the same; eye hazel. 



Never having met with the female of this bird I am unable at 

 present to say in what its colors differ from those of the male. 



