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HANGING FLYCATCHER. 

 (Muscicapa noveboracensis.) 



Mu. pallide viridis, capite cinerascente, ahdomine medio (dba, 



macula varium lateribusque corporis Jiavis. 

 Pale-green Flycatcher, with the head ash-coloured ; the middle 



of the belly white ; spot on the nostrils and sides of the body 



yellow. 



Muscicapa noveboracensis. Gmel. Syst, Nat. 1. 947. — Lath, 



Ind, Orn. 2. 489. 92. 

 Muscicapa pusilla. Wils, Arrier, Orn, 3. 103. - 

 Green Flycatcher. Pen. Arct, Zool. 2, 274. 

 Green black-capt Flycatcher. Wils. Amer, Orn. 3. 103. pi, 



26./4. 



Hanging Flycatcher. Lath. Syn, Sup. 174, 83. 



This bird is a native of the most swampy parts 

 of North America, particularly those towards the 

 Gulf of Mexico : it has a very fine note : it is 

 four inches and a half in length : the forehead, 

 supercilia, and under parts of the body, are yel- 

 low : the line over the eye is the brightest ; and 

 the colour of the cheeks, belly, and vent, darkest, 

 the latter particularly, where it is tinged with 

 olive : the upper parts of the body are olive 

 green : the wings and tail dusky brown ; the for- 

 mer are very short: the legs and beak are flesh- 

 coloured : the crown of the head is deep blue : 

 the irides hazel : female without the black on the 

 crown, but has that part olive yellow. This spe- 

 cies appears to be very rare, by frequenting only 

 the almost inaccessible parts of North America : 



