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YELLOW-THROATED FLYCATCHER. 
with black, chiefly near the great end. Winged insects are 
its principal food. 
Whether this species has been described before or not, I 
must leave to the sagacity of the reader, who has the oppor- 
tunity of examining European works of this kind, to discover. * 
I have met with no description in Pennant, BufFon, or Latham, 
that will properly apply to this bird, which may perhaps be 
owing to the imperfection of the account, rather than ignorance 
of the species, which is by no means rare. 
The Yellow-throated Flycatcher is five inches and a half 
long, and nine inches from tip to tip of the expanded wings ; 
the upper part of the head, sides of the neck, and the back, 
are of a fine yellow olive ; throat, breast, and line over the 
eye, which it nearly encircles, a delicate lemon yellow, which, 
in a lighter tinge, lines the wings : belly and vent, pure silky 
white ; lesser wing-coverts, lower part of the back, and rump, 
ash ; wings, deep brown, almost black, crossed with two white 
bars ; primaries, edged with light ash, secondaries, with white ; 
tail, a little forked, of the same brownish black with the wings, 
the three exterior feathers edged on each vane with white ; 
legs and claws, light blue ; the two exterior toes united to the 
middle one, as far as the second joint; bill, broad at the base, 
with three or four slight bristles, the upper mandible over- 
hanging the lower at the point, near which it is deeply notched ; 
tongue, thin, broad, tapering near the end, and bifid ; the eye 
is of a dark hazel ; and the whole bill of a dusky light blue, j 
The female differs very little in colour from the male ; the 
yellow on the breast, and round the eye, is duller, and the 
white on the wings less pure. 
* See Orange-throated Warbler, Latham, Syn. ii. 481, 103. 
