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VIEEO FLAVIFRONS. 
strips of the bark of grape vines, moss, lichen, &c. 
lined with tine fibres of such like s^ihstances ; the CcC 
usually four, are white, thinly dotted with black, chifj 
near the great end. Winged insects are its prin^'r 
food. 
Whether this species has been described before ^ 
not, I must leave to the sagacity of the reader, who 
the opportunity of examining European works of ' j 
kind, to discover.* I have met W'ith no descriptioOj 
Pennant, Buffon, or Latham, that will properly aptf 
to this bird, which may perhaps be owing to 
imperfection of the account, rather than ignoranc ® ' 
the species, which is by no means rare. „ 
The yellow-throated flycatcher is five inches aOj. 
half long, and nine inches from tip to tip of the expan^ 
wings ; the upper part of the head, sides of the 
and the back, are of a fine yellow olive ; throat, hrc^ 
and line over the eye, which it nearly encircles, a id- 
eate lemon yellow, which, in a lighter tinge, lines 
wrings ; belly and vent, pure sillcy white ; lesser t''’ . 
coverts, lower part of the back, and rump, ash ; ni"? 
deep brown, almost black, crossed with two white b<'!j 
primaries, edged with light ash, secondaries, '’‘j 
white ; tail, a little forked, of the same brownish W. 
with the wings, the three exterior feathers edgclj 
each vane with white ; legs and claws, light blue ; 
two exterior toes united to the middle one, as far as 
second joint; bill, broad at the base, with three or IJg 
-slight bristles, the upper mandible overhanging b; 
lower at the |)oint, near which it is deeply notchj 
tongue, thin, broad, tapering near the end, and hi‘‘,i 
the eye, is of a dark hazel ; and the whole bill >' j,i 
dusky light blue. The female diflfers very litth’ j 
colour from the male ; the yellow on the breast, ^ « 
round the eye, is duller, and the white on the 
less pure. 
* See Orange-throated Warbler, Latham, Syn. ii, 481, 
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