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YELLOW-THROATED FLYCATCHER. 
which it seems to be resident, or nearly so. I found them 
abundant in Upper Canada, and in the northern parts of the 
state of New York, in the month of November; they also 
inhabit the whole Atlantic states as far as Georgia, and the 
southern extremity of Florida, as well as the interior parts of 
the United States, as far west as Chilicothe, in the state of 
Ohio, and, according to Buffon, Louisiana. They are said to 
be the only Woodpeckers found in Jamaica ; though I question 
whether this be correct; and to be extremely fond of the 
capsicum, or Indian pepper.* They are certainly much 
hardier birds, and capable of subsisting on coarser and more 
various fare, and of sustaining a greater degree of cold, than 
several other of our Woodpeckers. They are active and 
vigorous ; and, being almost continually in search of insects 
that injure our forest trees, do not seem to deserve the 
injurious epithets that almost all writers have given them. It 
is true, they frequently perforate the timber, in pursuit of 
these vermin ; but this is almost always in dead and decaying 
parts of the tree, which are the nests and nurseries of millions 
of destructive insects. Considering matters in this light, I do 
not think their services overpaid by all the ears of Indian 
corn they consume; and would protect them, within my own 
premises, as being more useful than injurious. 
YELLOW-THROATED FLYCATCHER. — MUSCICAPA 
SYLVICOLA.— Plate VII. Fig. 3. 
Perth's Museum , No. 6827. 
VIREO f FLA VIFRONS. — Vieillot. 
Vireo flavifrons, Ponap. Synop. p. 70. 
This summer species is found chiefly in the woods, hunting 
among the high branches ; and has an indolent and plaintive 
* Sloane, 
-j- Vireo is a genus originally formed by Vieillot to contain an American 
group of birds, since the formation of whieh several additions have been made by 
