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GREEN BLACK-CAPT FLYCATCHER. 

 MUSCICAPA PUSILLA. 

 [Plate XXVL— Fig. 4.] ^ 



Pe ale's Museum, A^o. 7785. 



THIS neat and active little species I have never met with in 

 the works of any European naturalist. It is an inhabitant of the 

 sw^amps of the southern states, and has been several times seen in 

 the lower parts of the states of New Jersey and Delaware. Amidst 

 almost unapproachable thickets of deep morasses it commonly 

 spends its time, during summer, and has a sharp squeaking note, 

 noways musical* It leaves the southern states early in October. 



This species is four inches and a half long, and six and a half 

 in extent; front line over the eye and whole lower parts yellow, 

 brightest over the eye and dullest on the cheeks, belly and vent, 

 where it is tinged with olive; upper parts olive green; wings and 

 tail dusky brown, the former very short; legs and bill flesh co- 

 lored; crown covered with a patch of deep black; iris of the eye 

 hazel. 



The female is without the black crown, having that part of a 

 dull yellow olive, and is frequently mistaken for a distinct species. 

 From her great resemblance, however, in other respects to the 

 male, now first figured, she cannot hereafter be mistaken. 



