YELLOW-THROATED CHAT. 
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hanging* a little at the tip, not notched, pointed, and 
altogether black ; the tongue is tapering, more fleshy 
than those of the muscicopa tribe, a nd a little lacerated 
at the tip ; the nostril is oval, and half covered with 
an arching membrane ; legs and feet, light blue, hind 
daw rather the strongest, the two exterior toes united 
to the second joint. 
The female may be distinguished from the male by 
the black and white adjoining the eye being less intense 
or pure than in the male ; and in having the inside of 
the mouth of a dirty flesh colour, which, in the male, 
is black ; in other respects, their plumage is nearly 
alike. 
GENUS XVIII. — VIREO , Vietll. 
82 . riBEO FLA V I FR ONS , VIEILL. — MUSClCAFA STL NICOLA, WILS. 
YELLOW-THROATED CHAT. 
WILSON, PLATE VII. FIG. III. — EDINBURGH COLLEGE MUSEUM. 
This summer species is found chiefly in the woods, 
hunting among the high branches ; and has an indolent 
and plaintive note, which it repeats with some little 
variation, every ten or twelve seconds, like preed , 
preea , &c. It is often heard in company with the 
red-eyed flycatcher ( muscicapa olivacea ,) or whip-tom- 
kelly of Jamaica ; the loud energetic notes of the 
latter, mingling with the soft languid warble of the 
former, producing an agreeable effect, particularly 
during the burning heat of noon, when almost every 
other songster but these two is silent. Those who 
loiter through the shades of our magnificent forests at 
that hour, will easily recognize both species. It arrives 
from the south early in May ; and returns again with 
its young about the middle of September. Its nest, 
which is sometimes fixed on the upper side of a limb, 
sometimes on a horizontal branch among the twigs, 
generally on a tree, is composed outwardly of thin 
