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YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT. 
throat, breast, and vent, brilliant yellow; belly, a fainter 
tinge of the same colour; inside coverts of the wings, also 
yellow; tips and inner vanes of the wings, dusky brown; 
tail, cuneiform, dusky, edged with olive green; bill, black, 
straight, slender, of the true Motacilla form, though the bird 
itself was considered as a species of thrush by Linnseus ; but 
very properly removed to the genus Motacilla by Gmelin ; 
legs, flesh coloured; iris of the eye, dark hazel. The female 
wants the black band through the eye, has the bill brown, and 
the throat of a much paler yellow. This last, I have good 
reason to suspect, has been described by Europeans as a 
separate species : and that from Louisiana, referred to in the 
synonyms, appears evidently the same as the former, the chief 
difference, according to Buffon, being in its wedged tail, 
which is likewise the true form of our own species; so that 
this error corrected will abridge the European nomenclature 
of two species. Many more examples of this kind will occur 
in the course of our descriptions. 
YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT.*— PIPRA POLYGLOTTA. 
Plate VI. Fig. 2. 
Muscicapa viridis, Gmel. Syst. i. 936. — Le Merle vert de la Caroline, Bvffon, iii. 
396 Chattering Flycatcher, Arct. Zool. ii. No. 266 Lath. Synop. iii. 350, 48. 
— Garrulus australis, Bartram, 290 Peak's Museum , No. 6661. 
ICTERIA VIRIDIS. — Bonaparte. 
Icteria dumicola, Vieill. Gal. des Ois. pi. 85. p. 119. — Icteria viridis, Bonap. 
Synop. p. 69. 
This is a very singular bird. In its voice and manners, 
and the habit it has of keeping concealed, while shifting and 
vociferating around you, it differs from most other birds with 
* The Prince of Musignano remarks, when speaking of this bird, in his 
excellent Observations on the Nomenclature of Wilson's Ornithology , “ It is 
not a little remarkable, that Wilson should have introduced this genus in his 
Ornithology. The bird he placed in it has certainly no relation to the 
Manakins, nor has any one of that genus been found within the United States. 
This bird has been placed by authors in half a dozen different genera. It was 
