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SMALL HEADED FLYCATCHER. 
feathers lighter,- the outer web pale brownish-grey ; fore part of neck an-d 
a portion of the breast and sides ash-grey, the rest of the lower parts pale 
yellow. 
Male, 5 t %, wing, 2 /*.; 
Columbia river. Fur Countries. Labrador. Newfoundland. Rare 
in the Atlantic States. 
The White Oak. 
Quercus prinus, Willd., Sp. PI., vol. iv. p. 439. Pursch, FI. Amer., vol. ii. p. 633. — 
Quercus prinus palustris, Mich., Arb. Forest, de l’Amer. Sept., vol. ii. p. 51. PI. 
V. — Moncecia polyandria, Linn . — Amentaceas, Juss. 
Leaves oblongo-oval, acute, largely toothed, .the teeth nearly equal, 
dilated, and callous at the tip ; cupule craterate, attenuated at the base ; 
acorn ovate. This species grows in low shady woods, and along the mar- 
gins of rivers, from Pennsylvania to Florida. The wood is porous, and of 
inferior quality. 
SMALL HEADED FLYCATCHER. 
Muscicapa minuta, Wilson . 
PLATE LXVII.— Male. 
The sight of the figure of this species brings to my recollection a curious 
incident of long-past days, when I drew it at Louisville in Kentucky. It 
was in the early part of the spring of 1808, thirty-two years ago, that I 
procured a specimen of it while searching the margins of a pond. 
In those happy days, kind reader, I thought not of the minute differences 
by which one species maybe distinguished from another in words, or of the 
necessity of comparing tarsi, toes, claws, and quills, although I have, as you 
are aware, troubled you with tedious details of this sort. When Alexander 
Wilson visited me at Louisville, he found in my already large collection of 
drawings, a figure of the present species, which, being at that time unknown 
to him, he copied and afterwards published in his great work, but without 
acknowledging the privilege that had thus been granted to him. I have 
more than once regretted this, not by any means so much on my own 
