YELLOW-RUMPED FLY- 
CATCHER. 
Though the genus of Fly-Catchers, of 
the Muscicapa of Llnnaeas, is largely treate4 
of by BufFon ; who describes two species as 
found in Europe, eight in Africa and the warni 
regions of Asia, and thirty in America ; it ii 
not a little remarkable, that he seems to have 
entirely overlooked this Yellow-Rumped Fly- 
Catcher of Edwards. To us, as well as to 
this last naturalist, it appears that the bird in 
question is an indisputable Fly-Catcher; and 
it cannot be well doubted that Edwards, who 
had this bird, preserved dry, sent from Ameri- 
ca, by his friend Mr. William Bartram of 
Pennsylvania, himself no contemptible natu- 
ralist, received it under the appellation which 
he has given it in his inestimable work. 
The Yellow-Rumped Fly-Catcher is very 
little larger than the figure, as represented in 
the annexed print ; and has a pleasing appear- 
ance, as well in it's general form, as in the 
chaste 
