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INSECTIVOROUS BIRDS. 
BONAPARTE’S SYLVAN FLYCATCHER. 
(Muscicapa Bonapartii , Audubon, pi. 5. Orn. Biog. i, p, 27.) 
Sp. Charact. — Cinereous, front and beneath dull yellow, mixed 
with grey, the breast sparingly spotted ; tail wedge-shaped. 
This species was discovered by Audubon in a cypress 
swamp, in Louisiana, on the 13th of August, 1821, which 
was the only time he ever met with it. Its manners ap- 
peared very similar to those of the preceding species, 
and it now uttered merely a plaintive ’tweet. 
Size apparently a little more than 5 inches. Primaries edged with 
white. Bill pale. Quills dusky, their outer webs blue ; 2d. prima- 
ry longest Legs yellowish flesh color. I believe, I have once seen 
this species in a grove of the Botanic Garden in Cambridge. 
SELBY’S SYLVAN FLYCATCHER. 
( Muscicapa Selbii , Audubon, pi. 9. Orn. Biog. i. p. 46.) 
. Sp. Charact. — Olive green, below and line over the eye yellow; 
tail forked, three lateral feathers with white spots on their inner 
webs. 
This very rare species was also met with by the above 
author in the same sw r amp with the preceding, but in the 
early part of July, so that it is probably a summer resi- 
dent in some of the neighbouring Spanish provinces. 
About the size of the preceding. Wings and tail brownish black, 
edged with yellow, the 3d quill longest. A few spots on the cheeks. 
Bill almost triangular, dusky. Legs rose flesh-color. 
SMALL-HEADED SYLVAN FLYCATCHER. 
(Muscicapa minuta, Wilson, vi. p. 62. pi. 50. fig. 5. Sylvia mi- 
nuta } Bonap.) 
Sp. Charact. — Dark yellow-olive ; beneath pale dull yellow ; wings 
and tail dusky brown ; the wing-coverts tipt with white ; two 
lateral tail-feathers with a white spot on the inner vanes. 
