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SYLVIA PARDALINA. 
the yellow line over the eye ; at the anterior and p/*® 
terior angle of the eye is a small touch of black ; h'® , 
head and whole back, rump, and tail-coverts, y® ..f 
olive, thickly streaked with black ; the upper extcr' 
edges of several of the greater wing-coverts are P“j 
white, forming a broad bar on the wing, the 
superior row being also broadly tipt with white; 
of the wing, dusky, finely edged with dark olive veU^J'J 
throat and whole breast, rich yellow, spreading 
along the sides under the wings, handsomely mark^ 
with spots of black running in chains ; belly and vcf.' 
ycUow'ish white ; tail, forked, dusky black, edged "jL 
yellow olive, the three exterior feathers on each 
marked on their inner vanes with a spot of 
The yellow' on the throat and sides of the neck reach'’ 
nearly round it, and is very bright. 
104. STLFIA PABDALINA, BONAPARTE. 
tlUSCICAPA CANADENSIS, WILSON. CANADA ELVCATCHr''' 
■WILSON, PLATE XXVI. FIG. II. — MALE. 
This is a solitary, and, in the lower parts of Ped^ 
sylvania, rather a rare species ; being more numer«d^ 
in the interior, particularly near the mountains, whed 
the only two 1 ever met w'ith were shot. They 
silent birds, as far as I could observe ; and were bu»' •, 
darting among the branches after insects. From 
specific name given them, it is probable that they 
more plcntj' in Canada than in the United Stales ; wh®d 
it is doubtful whether they be not mere passenger* ' 
sijring and autumn. . j 
Tliis species is four inches and a half long, and ei? .[ 
in extent ; front, black ; crown, dappled with s®’ s 
streaks of grey and spots of black ; line from the 
to and around the eye, yellow ; below the eye, a str® ^ 
or spot of black, descending along the sides of t he tln'O*,’ 
which, as well as the breast and belly, is brilliant ycUd'^j’ 
the breast being marked with a broad rounding band 
