AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY.
FORK-TAILED FLYCATCHER.
MUSCICJUPA SJlFJlftjl.
Mate I. Fig. 1.
Mmdcapa■ tyrannus, Limj. Syst. I, p. 325, Sp. 4. ; Gmel. Syst. I, p. 931, Sp. 4.
Lath. Ind. pn484, Spi69V^c<,
Tyrannm savana, Yebill. Oh. de V Jim. Sept. I, p. 72, PI. 43: (a-South American
specimen).^ YrBit.iL, Now. Diet. d’Eht. Nat' XXXV,, u. 81?. ,
Musdcapa tyrannm cauda bijvrca, Bhiss. Jlv. II, p. 3!t5, sti.'20, PI. 39, fig. 3.
Le Moucherolle savana, Btrer. IV, p. 557; Pl.^26':
Le Tyran ci queue fourchue da Cayenne, Btufe. PI. End. 571, fig. swt;.
Fork-tailed Flycatcher, Pemdlrct. Zool. Sp.365.’ L ath. Syri. H, Part 1, Sp. 59.
' Philadelphia Museum, No. 6620.
T hough Brisson,|iLinné, and Pexmant have stated the Fork-tailed
Flycatcher to inhabit this region, as far norths, as Canada, still thé fact
seemed more than doubtful, since this bird escaped the researches of
Viéillot, and, what is more extraordinary^ thdse1 of the indefatigable
Wilson. It is, therefore, a very gratifying, circumstance, 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 doutftloh1 the subject, t The specimen from which
our drawing was made is a beautiful male, in full plumage; it was
shot near1 Bridgetown, New-Jersey, at the extraordinary season of the
first week h r December, and was presented by Mr. J. Woodcraft, of
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