SWALLOW-TAILED FLYCATCHER. 
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cheeks deep black, the feathers of the crown bright yellow at the base ; back 
ash-grey, rump bluish-black ; wings and tail brownish-black, the lateral 
feathers of the latter with the outer web white for half its length ; lower 
parts white. 
Male, 14i, 14. 
Gordonia lasianthus, Willd., Sp. PI., vol. iii. p. 480. Putsch, FI. Amer. Sept., 
vol. ii. p. 451. — Monodelphia polyandria, Linn. 
This beautiful small tree is met with in Georgia, South Carolina, 
and Florida, in moist lands near the coast, and never fails to attract the 
eye by its beautiful blossoms. The twig from which the drawing was 
made was procured from the garden of Mr. Noisette, who liberally 
afforded me all the aid in his power for embellishing my plates. The 
leaves are evergreen, lanceolate-oblong, shining and leathery ; the flowers 
white, of the size of the common garden-rose, and placed on long peduncles ; 
the capsules conical and acuminate. 
SWALLOW-TAILED FLYCATCHER. 
Milvulus forficatus, Gmel. 
PLATE LIII.— Male. 
Not having seen this handsome bird alive, I am unable to give you any 
account of its habits from my own observation ; but I have pleasure in sup- 
plying the deficiency by extracting the following notice from the “ Manual 
of the Ornithology of the United States and of Canada/ 7 by my excellent 
friend Thomas Nuttall. 
“ This very beautiful and singular species of Flycatcher is confined wholly 
to the open plains and scanty forests of the remote south-western regions 
beyond the Mississippi, where they, in all probability, extend their residence 
to the high plains of Mexico. I found these birds rather common near the 
banks of Red river, about the confluence of the Kiamesha. I again saw 
them more abundant near the Great Salt river of the Arkansas, in the month 
of August, when the young and old appeared, like our King-birds, assem- 
bling together previously to their departure for the south. They alighted 
repeatedly on the tall plants of the prairie, and were probably preying upon 
