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SOLITARY FLYCATCHER. 
wing-coverts, black, also broadly tipt with blue, so as to appear 
nearly wholly of that tint; sides of the breast, spotted or 
streaked with blue ; belly, chin, and throat, pure white ; the 
tail is forked, the five lateral feathers on each side with each a 
spot of white ; the two middle more slightly marked with the 
same ; from the eye backwards extends a line of dusky blue ; ;j 
before and behind the eye, a line of white ; bill, dusky above, 
light blue below ; legs and feet, light blue. 
SOLITARY FLYCATCHER.— MUSCICAPA SOLITARIA. 
Plate XVII. Fig. 6. 
VIREO SOLITARIES. — Vieillot. 
Vireo solitarius, Bonap. Synop. p. 70. 
This rare species I can find no where described. I have 
myself never seen more than three of them, all of whom 
corresponded in their markings; and, on dissection, were 
found to be males. It is a silent, solitary bird. It is also 
occasionally found in the state of Georgia, where I saw a 
drawing of it in the possession of Mr Abbot, who considered 
it a very scarce species. He could give me no information of 
the female. The one from which the figure in the plate was 
taken, was shot in Mr Bartram’s woods, near Philadelphia, 
among the branches of dogwood, in the month of October. It 
appears to belong to a particular family, or sub-division of the 
Muscicapa genus, among which are the White-eyed, the 
Yellow-throated, and several others already described in the 
present work. Why one species should be so rare, while 
another, much resembling it, is so numerous, at least a thousand 
for one, is a question I am unable to answer, unless by sup- 
posing the few we meet with here to be accidental stragglers 
from the great body, which may have their residence in some 
other parts of our extensive continent. 
