AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY. 
FORK-TAILED FLYCATCHER. 
MUS CICAPA SAVAJVA. 
Plate I. Fig. I. 
Muscicapa tyrannus, Linn. Syst. I, p. 325, Sp. 4. Gmel. Syst. I, p. 931, Sp. 4. 
Lath. Ind. p. 484, Sp. 69. 
Tyrannus savana, Vieill. Ois. de V Jim. Sept. I, p. 72, PI. 43, (a South American 
specimen.) Vieill. Nouv. Bid. d'Hist. Nat. XXXV, p. 87. 
Muscicapa tyrannus cauda bifurca, Briss. Jlv. II, p. 395, Sp. 20, PI. 39, fig. 3. 
Lc Moucherolle savana , Buff. IV, p. 557, PI. 26. 
Le Tyran a queue fourchoue de Cayenne , Buff. PI. Enl. 571, fig. 2. 
Fork-tailed Flycatcher , Penn. JLrct. Zool. Sp. 265. Lath. Syn. II, Part 1, p. 355, Sp. 59. 
Philadelphia Museum , No. 6620. 
Though Brisson, Linne, and Pennant have stated the Fork-tailed 
Flycatcher to inhabit this region, as far north as Canada, still the 
fact seemed more than doubtful, since this bird escaped the re¬ 
searches of Vieillot, and, what is more extraordinary, those of the 
indefatigable Wilson. It is, therefore, a very gratifying circum¬ 
stance, that we are able to introduce this fine bird with certainty 
into the Ornithology of the United States, and, by the individual 
represented in the annexed plate, to remove all doubt on the subject. 
The specimen from which our drawing was made is a beautiful 
male, in full plumage; it was shot near Bridgetown, New-Jersey, 
at the extraordinary season of the first week in December, and 
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