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SYLVIA FARDALINA. 
the yellow line over the eye ; at the anterior and pos- 
terior angle of the eye is a small touch of black ; hind 
head and whole hack, rump, and tail-coverts, yellow 
olive, thickly streaked with black ; the upper exterior 
edges of several of the greater wing-coverts are pure 
white, forming a broad bar on the wing, the next 
superior row being also broadly tipt with white; rest 
of the wing, dusky, finely edged with dark olive yellow ; 
throat and whole breast, rich yellow, spreading also 
along the sides under the wings, handsomely marked 
with spots of black running in chains ; belly and vent, 
yellowish white ; tail, forked, dusky black, edged with 
yellow olive, the three exterior feathers on each side 
marked on their inner vanes with a spot of white. 
The yellow on the throat and sides of the neck reaches 
nearly round it, and is very bright. 
104 . SYLVIA PARD ALINA , BONAPARTE. 
MUSCICAPA CANADENSIS , WILSON. CANADA FLYCATCHER. 
WILSON, PLATE XXVI. FIG. II. — MALE. 
This is a solitary, and, in the lower parts of Penn- 
sylvania, rather a rare species ; being more numerous 
in the interior, particularly near the mountains, where 
the only two I ever met with were shot. They are 
silent birds, as far as I could observe ; and were busily 
darting among the branches after insects. From the 
specific name given them, it is probable that they are 
more plenty in Canada than in the United States ; where 
it is doubtful whether they be not mere passengers in 
spring and autumn. 
This species is four inches and a half long, and eight 
in extent ; front, black ; crown, dappled with small 
streaks of grey and spots of black ; line from the nostril 
to and around the eye, yellow; below the eye, a streak 
or spot of black, descending along the sides of the throat, 
which, as well as the breast and belly, is brilliant yellow, 
the breast being marked with a broad rounding band of 
