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Rh the rare good fortune to see in your company, by which means they have been masterly figured. It is beyond a doubt M. boi-ealis of Richardson, but I beheve Mr Cooper and myself discovered it previously, at least be- fore the appeai-ance of Dr Richardsos's Northern Zoology." In the course of my journey farther eastward, I found this species here and there in Massachusetts and the State of Maine, as far as Mars Hill, and subsequently on the IMagdeleine Islands, and the coast of La- brador ; but I have not yet been able to discover its line of migration, or the time of its arrival in the Southern States.

MuscicAPA iNORNATA, Nuttall, Nat. Sci. Philad.

Tyrankus borealis, Northern Tyrant, Swains, and Richards. Fauna Bor. Anier. part ii. p. 141.

Olive-sided Flycatcher or Pe-pe, Muscicapa Cooperi, Niiltall, Manual, part i. p. 282.

Adult Male. Plate CLXXIV. Fig. 1.

Bill of moderate length, stout, straight, broad at the base, and tapering, compressed only close to the tip ; both mandibles with the dorsal line very slightly convex, the sides rounded, the edges nearly straio-ht, sharp, inclinate ; a slight notch close to the small deflected tip. Nostrils basal, lateral, roundish, partly covered by the bristly feathers. Head rather large, neck short, body rather slender. Feet short; tarsus compressed, covered anteriorly with a few broad scutella; toes of moderate size, the hind one not proportionally larger, the inner a little shorter than the outer ; claws rather long, arched, much compressed, very acute.

Plumage soft and blended, with little gloss. Strong bristles at the base of the upper mandible. Wings rather long, second quill lono-est first longer than thii-d, second and third slightly cut out on the outer web • the primaries tapering and rounded. Tail of ordinary length, emargi- nate, of twelve rounded feathers.

Bill blackish-brown above, the lower mandible brownish-yellow, with the tip dusky. Iris dark hazel. Feet dusky, claws brownish-black. The whole upper parts, with the cheeks and sides of the neck, dusky brown; quills and tail blackish-brown, the secondaries margined with brownish-white. A stripe of greyish-white runs down the fore-neck from the bill, and joins the white of the breast and abdomen, the latter beino- tinged with yellow ; the sides dusky grey.

Length 1 inches, extent of wings 12f ; bill along the ridge j, along the edge l^^^^ 5 tarsus