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YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHER. 
length, by £ in breadth, pure white ground. The spots are more bold, 
larger, and of a brighter reddish colour than those of S. Ludoviciana, and 
are diffused over the whole surface, instead of being crowded toward the 
larger end, as is the case in the common species. The irides are brownish, 
and the hairs on the upper eye-lid longer and more numerous. The general 
colours and markings are much the same in both species, but much paler in 
the present one. 
FAMILY VII.*— MUSCICAPIN^E. FLYCATCHERS. 
Genus Il.f— MUSCICAPA, Linn. FLYCATCHER. 
YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHER. 
Muscicapa flaviyentris, Baird. 
PLATE CCCCXC.— Male. 
1 am indebted to my young friend Spencer F. Baird, Esq., of Carlisle, 
Pennsylvania, for specimens of this new Flycatcher, which that gentleman 
and Wm. M. Baird, Esq., accurately described in Vol„ I. of the “Proceed- 
ings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia,” (July and August 
1843, Nos. 28, 29, p. 283,) and from which I have made my figure. The 
following account of its habits, and also the description of its specific 
characters, are given by the two gentlemen above indicated. 
“ This species was first observed in the spring of 1840, near Carlisle, 
Pennsylvania. During every succeeding spring since, it has been seen in 
greater or less numbers, and several specimens procured each year. Its 
habits are much like those of the other species of this genus ; it frequents 
low thickets near small streams, is seldom found in large woods like I 
acadica or T. virens , and is a very unsuspicious bird, allowing persons to 
approach within a short distance. It probably goes farther north than 
Pennsylvania to breed, having never been observed after the latter part of 
May or beginning of June.” 
See voL i. p, 196. 
f Ibid. p. 198. 
