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BONAPARTE’S FIA r CATCHING-WARBLER. 
Swamp (about five miles from St. Francisville) I saw a great number of small 
birds of different species, and as I looked at them I observed two engaged in 
a fight or quarrel. I shot at them, but only one fell. On reaching the spot, 
I found the bird was only wounded, and saw it standing still and upright as 
if stupified by its fall. When I approached it to pick it up, it spread its tail, 
opened its wings, and snapped its bill about twenty times sharply and in 
quick succession, as birds of the genus do when seizing insects on wing. .1 
carried it home, and had the pleasure of drawing it while alive and full of 
spirit. It often made off from my hand, by starting suddenly, and then 
would hop round the room as quickly as a Carolina Wren, uttering its tweet, 
tiveet, tweet, all the while, and snapping its bill every time I took it up. I 
put it into a cage fora few minutes, but it obstinately thrust its head through 
the lower parts of the wires. I relieved it from this sort of confinement, 
and allowed it to go about the room. Next day it was very weak and ruffled 
up, so I killed it and put it in spirits.” To this account I have only to add 
that I have not seen another individual since. 
Bonaparte’s Flycatcher, Muscicapa Bonapartii, And. Orn. Biog., vol. i. p. 2 Y. 
Bristles longer than in the last, second quill longest ; tail very long, nearly 
even ; upper parts light greyish-blue ; quills dusky brown, their outer webs 
greyish-blue, the two outer margined with white ; middle tail-feathers and 
edges of the rest like the back ; lower parts and a band on the forehead 
ochre-yellow, with a few faint dusky spots on the lower part of the fore 
neck. This species differs from the last chiefly in being of a more elongated 
form, in having the bristles much longer, the upper parts of a much lighter 
tint ; in wanting the black band down the side of the neck, and the yellow 
band over the eye ; the bill is straighter and more pointed, and the outer 
primaries are edged with white. 
Male, 5i. 
Louisiana. Only one specimen ever found. 
The Great Magnolia. 
Magnolia grandiflora, Willd., Sp. PI., vol. ii. p. 1255. Pursch , Flor. Amer., 
vol. ii. p. 380. Mich., Arbr. Forest, de l’Amer. Sept., vol. iii. p. 'll. PI. i. — 
Polyandria polygynia, Linn. — Magnolia, Juss. 
The magnificent tree, of which a twig, with a cone of ripe fruit, is repre- 
sented in the plate, attains a height of a hundred feet or even more. The 
bright red bodies are the seeds, suspended by a filament for some time after 
the capsules have burst. The trunk is often very straight, from two to four 
