SPECIES 14 . MUSCICAPJi CANADENSIS^ 
CANADA FLYCATCHER. 
[Plate XXVI.— Fig. 2. Male.] 
Linn. Syst. 324 . — Jlrct. Zool.p. 338 , No. 273 . — Latham, ii, 354 . 
— Peale’s Museum, No, 6969 . 
This is a solitary, and in the lower parts of Pennsylvania, 
rather a rare species; being more numerous in the interior, par- 
ticularly near the mountains, where the only two I ever met 
with were shot. They are silent birds, as far as I could observe; 
and were busily darting among the branches after insects. From 
the specific name given them it is probable that they are more 
plenty in Canada than in the United States; where it is doubt- 
ful whether they be not mere passengers in spring and autumn. 
This species is four inches and a half long, and eight in ex- 
tent; front black; crown dappled with small streaks of gray and 
spots of black; line from the nostril to and around the eye yel- 
low; below the eye a streak or spot of black, descending along 
the sides of the throat, which, as well as the breast and belly, is 
brilliant yellow, the breast being marked with a broad round- 
ing band of black, composed of large irregular streaks; back, 
wings and tail cinereous brown; vent white; upper mandible 
dusky, lower flesh coloured; legs and feet the same; eye hazel. 
Never having met with the female of this bird I am unable 
at present to say in what its colours difier from those of the 
male. 
♦ Sylvia pardalina, Bonapartb, Obs, A'b. 126. — Ibid. Stnop. M>. 108. 
