is two lines, and the third two lines and a half shorter than the second; the fourth is four lines
and a half shorter than the third; and the following ones decrease in succession a quarter
of an inch each. The second and third have their outward webs obliquely, but distinctly
sinuated ; and the inner webs of the three first are slightly narrowed towards their points.
The tips of these three feathers are comparatively broad, as they want the deep and sudden
sinuation so remarkable in the same feathers of the King-bird. The secondaries are very
obtuse, but their ends are not scolloped or emarginated, as in the King-bird. The tail is
forked, the central pair of feathers being more than a quarter of an inch shorter than the
exterior ones. Tarsi short. Nails like those of T. intrepidus, the hind one rather larger
than the middle one.
the tail -. -s •
„ of the tail
,, of the longesfcquill feather
„ of the folded wing »
,, of the bill, measured on its ridge
D im en sio n s
Of the female.
Inches. lines. Inches. line
Lof
8 0
Length of the bill, from the angle of the
mouth . . . . » 0 11
. 3 0 „ of the tarsus . 0 7
3 8 ,, of the middle toe . . 0 6
. 4 4 .,, of its daw . . .. , 0 , 3
; 0 n
[33.] iJ T yrannula Saya. (Swainson.) , Say’s Fly-catcher.
Sub-f a m il y , Tyranninae. Genus, Tyrannula. Sw ain s. Zool. Jown.
Muscicapa Saya. B o na p. S y n p. 67- No. 81. Or»., i., p. 20, pi. 2, f. 3.
Tyrannula pallida *. Sw ain s. Synop. Mex. in Phil. Mag., No. xv.
Ch . Sp. T y r a n n u l a Saya, pallidè brunnescenti-grisea, abdomine crisso et tectricibus caudoe inferioribus ferrugineis,
alts acutis : remigibus caryophillinis, caudâ eequali nigrescenti.
Sp . Ch. Say’s F l y -c a t c h e r , pale brownish-grey ; belly, vent, and under tail coverts, ferruginous ; wings pointed ;
quill feathers brown tail even, blackish.
Of the habits of this bird little is known. It was discovered by Mr. Titian
Peale, on the Arkansaw River, within twenty miles of the Rocky Mountains, and
first described and figured by the Prince of Musignano in the work above quoted.
Mr. Peale informs us that its voice is somewhat different from the Peewee (M usd-
* We received a specimen of this bird from Mexico, and designated it by the name of Tyrannula pallida, before
the first volume .of Prince Charles Bonaparte’s American Birds had reached this country. But we feel pleasure in
relinquishing our former specific name, and adopting that which commemorates the valuable services and diversified
labours of one of the first zoologists in America.—Sw.