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FAMILY VII.* — MUSCICAPINiE. FLYCATCHERS. 
Genus Il.f— MUSCICAPA, Linn , FLYCATCHER. 
LEAST FLYCATCHER. 
Muscicapa minima, Baird. 
PLATE CCCCXCI.— Male. 
A specimen of this little Flycatcher was sent to me along with the one 
last described, by Mr. Baird, and I have found his description of it so 
correct that I shall give it below. Mr. Baird says : 
“ This species was first observed and procured in May 1839, near Carlisle, 
Pennsylvania. Since then numbers have been observed and shot on every 
succeeding spring. Like the preceding, {T flaviventris,) this bird does not 
frequent deep forests, but is found among the scattering trees which border 
our streams. It is rather shyer than T. flaviventris, and does not, like that 
species, seek dense thickets. It also most probably goes further north to 
breed, as after the last of May it is no longer to be seen. It visits us from 
the south in the latter part of April, generally making its appearance about 
a week before T. flaviventris." 
This Flycatcher has a great range through the countries bordering upon 
the Upper Missouri. Several specimens were procured by some of my 
companions, and I not unfrequently met with them in my rambles along the 
sides of small though interesting valleys in the ravines so numerous about 
the Yellow Stone river and Fort Union. In its habits it resembles the 
smaller species allied to itself, all of which have been already described. I 
have no doubt that it breeds in the sections of the country where I saw it 
but its nest escaped our utmost endeavours to discover it. 
Least Flycatcher, Tyrannula minima, Baird. 
5 inches 2 lines, 8 inches 3 lines. 
See vol. i. p. 195. 
,‘Ibid. p. 198. 
