MARTINICO FLYCATCHER, 



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This elegant species is a native of New York : 

 the crown of its head, upper parts of the neck and 

 body, are dirty olive green : the throat and margin 

 of the wings splendid yellow: the primary quills 

 and tail rich olive green : breast and belly white, 

 tinged with yellow. 



MARTINICO FLYCATCHER. 

 , (Muscicapa Martinica.) 



Mu. capite cristato, corpore fusco subtus cinereo, remigum 

 margine exteriore albido. 



Flycatcher with a crested head ; the body brown ; beneath ash- 

 coloured ; the outer margins of the quills whitish. 



Muscicapa martinica. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 325. 3. — Gmel. Syst^^ 

 Nat. 1. 930. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 483. 62. 



Muscicapa martinica cristata. Briss. Orn. 2. 362. 3, pi. 36. Jl 2. 



Muscicapa albicapilla. Vieil, Ois. de I'Amer. Sept, 1. 66. 

 (female ?) 



Gobe-mouche huppe de la Martinique. Buffi Hist, Nat, Ois^ 



4. 540.^Buf. PL Enl. 568. f. 1. 

 Le Moucheroile a huppe blanche* Vieil. Ois, de VAmer, Sept, 



1. 66. p/. 37. female? 

 Martinico Flycatcher. Lath. Gen, Syn. 3. 352. 52. 



The Martinico Flycatcher is rather larger than 

 M. grisola : it is in length six inches ; its beak is 

 brown : the head and upper parts of the body 

 brown : feathers of the crown of the head long, 

 and capable of being set up in the manner of a 

 crest: the quills are brown, margined with whitish : 

 under parts of the plumage cinereous : tail brown : 

 legs grey. Inhabits Martinique. 



