290 YELLOW-THROATED FLYCATCHER. 
to the imperfection of the account, rather than ignorance of the 
species, which is by no means rare. 
The Yellow-throated Flycatcher is five inches and a half long, 
and nine inches from tip to tip of the expanded wings; the up- 
per part of the head, sides of the neck, and the back, are of a 
fine yellow olive; throat, breast and line over the eye, which it 
nearly encircles, a delicate lemon yellow, which in a lighter 
tinge lines the wings; belly and vent pure silky white; lesser 
wing coverts, lower part of the back, and rump, ash ; wings deep 
brown, almost black, crossed with two white bars; primaries 
edged with light ash, secondaries with white; tail a little forked, 
of the same brownish black with the wings, the three exterior 
feathers edged on each vane with white; legs and claws light 
blue; the two exterior toes united to the middle one as far as 
the second joint; bill broad at the base, with three or four slight 
bristles, the upper mandible overhanging the lower at the point, 
near which it is deeply notched; tongue thin, broad, tapering 
near the end, and bifid; the eye is of a dark hazel; and the 
whole bill of a dusky light blue. The female differs very little 
in colour from the male; the yellow on the breast and round the 
eye is duller, and the white on the wings less pure. 
