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under while ; tail, wings, and Tides of the body, the fame, 
but yellow inflead of orange ; legs in both brown. Thele 
inhabit the fiady woods of North America, a.s far as Hud- 
fon’s Bay, in hummer; in winter they migrate, and are 
then faid to be found in Jamaica and the neighbouring 
ifiands. 
28. Mmcicapa virens, the fprightly fly-catcher : the 
upper mandible black, the under yellow ; the head and 
upper parts are dark .afli-colour; the under, yellowilh 
white; wings brown, edged with white; tail brown ; legs 
black. Found in Carolina in Trimmer: breeds there, and 
departs before winter. Length, fix inches. 
29. Mufcicapa viridis, the green fly-catcher: Tomewhat 
bigger than a lark : the bill ten lines long, and black ; the 
head, and upper parts of the body, dull green ; over the 
eyes a freak of white, and beneath a fmall white fpot; in 
the direftion of the under jaw a ilender white line 5 the 
throat, and beneath as far as the belly, yellow; from 
thence to the vent dirty white ; the quills are dull green ; 
tail brown ; legs and claws black. Total length, eight 
inches. This is found in Carolina, but not in the inha¬ 
bited parts, being chiefly met with two or three hundred 
miles from the Tea. It frequents the banks of great rivers, 
and is very fliy. It flies with the legs extended ; and is 
faid to Ting well. Feeds on the feed of the purple-flow¬ 
ered folanum. 
30. Mufcicapa Sibirica, the Siberian fly-catcher: general 
colour brown, inclining to afli-colour beneath ; the throat 
and vent fpotted with white. Inhabits the parts about 
Lake Baikal, and in the eaftern part of Siberia. It is alfo 
obferved in Kamtfchatka. 
31. Mufcicapa ery thropis, the red-faced fly-catcher : the 
upper parts mottled, the under white; beneath the wings 
rufous; the forehead red. Inhabits the parts about the 
river Jenifei, in Siberia. 
32. Mufcicapa Cayanenfis, the Cayenne fly-catcher: 
rather lefs than a lark; feven inches long: bill dulky ; 
top of the head brown ; the feathers down the middle of 
it yellow at the bafe ; from the bill, over the eye, a freak 
of white; before and behind the eye a deep brown fpot. 
All the upper parts of the body are brown, edged with 
olive; the upper tail and wing coverts brown, with ru¬ 
fous, edges'; the chin white; the ref of the under parts 
yellow; quills and tail brown, with rufous edges; legs 
blackifli. Native of Cayenne. 
33. Mufcicapa Canadenfis, the Canada fly-catcher: 
length four inches and a half: bill grey brown; crown 
cinereous, fpotted with black; between the bill and eye a 
yellow fpot, and beneath the eye a black one. The upper 
parts of the plumage cinereous; the under yellow, marked 
with fmall black lpots on the fore part of the neck; the 
voider tail-coverts are white ; wing-coverts cinereous, 
within brown ; quills and tail greyilh brown, edged with 
cinereous ; legs pale yellow. Native of Canada. 
34. Mufcicapa cinnamomea, the cinnamon fly-catcher:- 
length eight inches: bill fout, pretty fraight, and black; 
the plumage in general of a yellowifli cinnamon-colour, 
in different fliades, on the upper parts; the rump and 
under parts much paler, almofl yellow ; the wing-coverts 
are tipped with this lafl colour, which forms a bar on the 
wing; quills dulky, margined with ferruginous. Inhabits 
Cayenne. 
35. Mufcicapa fpadicea, the yellow-rumped fly-cajcher: 
length leven inches : bill one inch long, and brown ; the 
upper parts of the plumage of a reddilh brown ; the wing- 
coverts margined with rufous; the quills brown; the 
rump yellow; belly and vent buff-colour; tail even at the 
end, three inches in length, and of the fame colour as the 
quills. Inhabits Cayenne, with the lafl. 
36. Mufcicapa olivacea, the olive fly-catcher: length 
five inches and a half: bill lead-colour ; bafe of the un¬ 
der mandible pale, and befet with briflles; irides red. 
All the upper parts of the plumage are greenilh olive ; 
through the eyes a brownifli freak ; and parallel to this, 
above them, a whitifli one; the under parts are greenilh 
white ; quills and tail deep olive, edged with white; legs 
brown. This bird is found in Carolina and Jamaica al¬ 
ternately ; vifiting the firfl in fumrner, and retiring to the 
lafl in the winter months. It is called at Jamaica by the 
name of whip tom kelly. 
( 3 . There is a variety of this bird.u'ithout the pale freak 
over the eyes, and with two pale bands acrofs the wings ; 
the under parts yellowifli white. It inhabits Canada. 
37. Mufcicapa Senegalenfis, the Senegal fly-catcher: 
length four inches and a quarter : bill black ; top of the 
head brown ; from the bill a freak of white pafies over 
the eye to the hind-head; cheeks black ; hind part of the 
neck, and throat, rufous white ; back, rump, and fcapu- 
lars, blackifli and grey, mixed with a little white; upper 
tail-coverts black ; breaff pale rufous; fore part of the 
neck, belly, vent, and edge of the wing, white ; thighs 
brown and white, mixed ; acrofs the wing-coverts a white 
bar ; quills brown, edged with grey ; tail black ; the four 
middle feathers plain ; the next, on each fide, tipped with 
white; and the three outermof are white on the outer 
edges and tips ; legs black. 
/ 3 . There is a variety, which, inf ead of the rufous breaf, 
has a band of black 011 the fame part; and the upper parts 
of the plumage are black, clouded with white, which in 
the other bird are only dulky and grey; eight of the mid¬ 
dle tail-feathers in this bird are black ; the laf but one 
black tipped with white ; and the outer one white on the 
outer web and tip. Both varieties are found at Senegal; 
and by fome fuppofed to be male and female. 
38. Mufcicapa crifata, the crefed fly-catcher. This 
fpecies has been defcribed by Briffon ; but, according to 
Vaillant, not correftly. The latter calls it tchitrec, To 
named from its cry by the colonif s of the Cape about the 
liver Duywenhock, where.it is firfl met with. Fie does 
not object to the name given it by Briffon, gobe-mouche 
huppe du Senegal, becaufe it is really met with in that 
part of Africa alfo. But Briffon appears not to have feen 
the fpecies in its mof perfeft fate, fince he omits to men¬ 
tion the long tail which difinguilhes the male, but only- 
in the feafon of love. 
The tchitrec is about the fize and Ihape of our gold¬ 
finch, but fomewliat longer. The two middle tail-fea¬ 
thers of the male are extremely long at a particular feafon. 
Belides his long tail, the male is dillinguiflied by a broad, 
thick, flefhy, eyelid ; it is movable, and of a fine blue co¬ 
lour, encircling the eye, and Ihaking about, as in fome 
fpecies of pigeons ; lie lias alfo a beautiful tuft or cref, 
the feathers of which have but narrow barbs at their origin, 
but fpread out and increale as they rife. This cref is 
dark green, which, according as the rays of light inter¬ 
vene, takes fometimes the blue glofs of polilhed feel; the 
fame colour prevails over the neck, face, and breaf, where 
it becomes lefs fliining, and changes to ferruginous grey 
on the flernum, and at length to white on the thighs, 
lower belly, and under tail-coverts. The back, wings, 
and tail, in fliort the whole upper furface, are of a bright 
red ; only the large wing-quills are tipped with black. 
The tail conlif s oi twelve feathers; of which, five on each 
fide are tapering, and form exactly the fliape of a fpear- 
liead ; but the two middle feathers are very long, being 
commonly, when at the full extent of their growth, three 
times the length of the body. The bill is blue at its origin, 
black at the point; the legs and claws are bluifli, the nails 
black. 
The female is rather fmaller; her cref is not fo large, 
nor her colours fo bright. Her face, neck, breaf, and 
under parts of the body, are ferruginous grey ; the lower 
belly and under tail-coverts are of a duller white; the red 
on the back, wings, and tail, are not fo Itrong, and parti¬ 
cularly have not the fliining glofs of thofe parts in the 
male; the lid which encircles the eye is narrower, thinner, 
and of a paler blue. But what particularly difinguilhes 
the female is the tail, the two middle feathers of which 
never, at any time of the year, extend beyond thofe which 
are next to them. And it mull be obferved, that, after 
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