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REDTHROATED
W.
Motacilla Penfylvanica, Lin. S)ß. i. p. 333. N° ig.
Le Figuier à tête jaune de Penfilvanie, Brif. orn. Supp. p. 105. N° 78.
■-------- ’— à poitrine rouge, Buf. oif. v. p. 308.
Red-throated .Flycatcher, Ed*w. pl. 30t..
D escription.
F e m a l e .
Place.
^ 1 Z E of the Pettichaps. Bill black : tipper parts of the body
olive green fpotted with black : crown of the head yellow :
hind part of the head black: beneath the eyes a broad band of
the fame : hides of the head, and under parts of the body, white :
top of the breaft and fides deep red : wing coverts dulky, crofied
with two whitilh bars : quills dulky; fome of the inner ones
edged and tipped with olive green: tail dulky; the,outer feathers
fpotted within with white: legs black.
The female wants the black at the hind head; the back not
Ipotted ; ,and the fides fcarcely marked, with red.
Thele are feen in Penfylvania in fpring, on their paffage norjh-
■ vuard, where -they go to breed, and pafs the fummer.
Their food confifts of infedts, Ipiders, and fuch like.
iry. Motacilla Cærulep, Lin. Syfl. i. p. 337. N°43.
C/ERLLEAN W. Le Figuier cendre de Penfilvanie, B ri/, orn. Supp. p. 107. N° 79.
-r— ------ gris de Fer, Bnf. o if v. p. 309.
Little Biue-grey'Flycatcher, Ednv. pl. 302.
Cærulean Warbler, A ril. Zool.
D escription. J ^ E S S than the Pettichaps. Bill black j bafe of the under
mandible reddilh : head and upper parts of the body blue
grey : eyelids white : from the bill to the hind head pafies a ftripe
of
of black : under parts white : wings cinereous brdwn ; the quills
edged with whitilh within ; but the otiter edges and tips of fome
of the inner ones are whitilh : the tail is longilh; the eight middle
feathers cinereous blue, and the outer one of thefe white at
thb tip i but the two outmoft on each fide are wholly white : legs
blick.
Thi female has not the black ftreak over the eyes j and the F emale.
eight middle tail feathers are cinereous brown; the reft as in the
male.
Thefe are inhabitants of Penfylvania, where they arrive early Place and
in fpring, and return in autumn. The neft is of a Angular con- mann er».
ftruftion; and Edwards has given a good figure of it. It is
compofed of fine downy matter, with the outfide of mofs and
liver-wort, and lined with horfe-hair. The form of it is cylindrical,
placed between the forks of the branches of a tree, and open
on the top.
Le Figuier à tête noire de Cayenne, Pl. enl. 704. I f , ,
Var. A.
^ jpH I S is very like the laft, but has the whole of the Upper D escription.
part of the head above the eyes black : the greater quills are
wholly blacks as are the fix middle tail feathers j the others
white. ,
This is a mere variety of the laft, and came from Cayenne. Place.
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