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TRAILL’S FLYCATCHER. 
head much darker ; a pale greyish ring round the eye ; two bands of greyish 
white on the wings, secondaries margined with the same ; quills and tail- 
feathers blackish-brown; throat and breast ash-grey, tinged with green, the 
rest of the lower parts pale greenish-yellow. 
Male, 64, 11. 
Throughout the United States. British Provinces. Labrador. New- 
foundland. Rocky Mountains. Columbia river. Migratory. 
The Swamp Honeysuckle. 
Azalea viscosa, Willd., Sp. PI., vol. i. p. 831. Pursch, Flor. Amer. Sept., vol. i. 
p. 153. — Pentandria Monogynia, Linn. — Rhododendra, Juss. 
The leaves of this species of Azalea are oblongo-obovate ; acute, smooth on 
both sides ; the flowers white, sweet-scented, with a very short calyx. It 
grows abundantly in almost every district of the United States, in such 
localities as are suited to it, namely, low damp meadows, swamps, and shady 
woods. 
TRAILL’S FLYCATCHER. 
Muscicapa Teaillii. 
PLATE LXy.— Male. 
This is a species which, in its external appearance, is so closely allied to 
the Wood Pewee, and the Small Green Crested Flycatcher, that the most 
careful inspection is necessary to establish the real differences existing 
between these three- species. Its notes, however, are perfectly different, as 
are, in some measure, its habits, as well as the districts in which it resides. 
The notes of Traill’s Flycatcher consist of the sounds wheet, wheet, which 
it articulates clearly while on wing. It resides in the skirts of the woods 
along the prairie lands of the Arkansas river. When leaving the top branches 
of a low tree, this bird takes long flights, skimming in zigzag lines, passing 
close over the tops of the tall grasses, snapping at and seizing different 
species of winged insects, and returning to the same tree to alight. Its 
notes, I observed, were uttered when on the point of leaving the branch. 
The pair chased the insects as if acting in concert, and doubtless had a nest 
in the immediate neighbourhood, although I was unable to discover it. It 
