138 SMALL GREEN, CRESTED FLYCATCHER. 



ing towards the tips, lower parts pale yellowish white : the only dis- 

 criminating marks between this and the preceding are the size, and the 

 color of the lower mandible, which in this is yellow — in the Pewet 

 blark. The female is difficult to be distinguished from the male. 



Til is species is far more numerous than the preceding ; and probably 

 winters much farther south. The Pewee was numerous in North and 

 South Carolina, in February ; but the Wood Pewee bad not made its 

 appearance in the lower parts of Georgia even so late as the sixteenth 

 of March. 



Species V. MUSCICAPA QUERULA* 



SMALL GREEN, CRESTED FLYCATCHER. 



[Plate XIII. Fig. 3.] 

 Muscicapa subviridis, Bartram, p. 289. — Ard. Zool. p. 386, No. 268. 



This bird is but little known. It inhabits the deepest, thick shaded, 

 solitary parts of the woods, sits generally on the lower branches, utters 

 every half minute or so, a sudden sharp squeak, Avhich is heard a con- 

 siderable way through the woods ; and as it flies from one tree to 

 another has a low querulous note, something like the twitterings of 

 chickens nestling under the wings of the hen. On alighting this sound 

 ceases ; and it utters its note as before. It arrives from the south about 

 the middle of May ; builds on the upper side of a limb, in a low swampy 

 part of the woods, and lays five white eggs. It leaves us about the 

 beginning of September. It is a rare and very solitary bird, always 

 haunting the most gloomy, moist and unfrequented parts of the forest. 

 It feeds on flying insects ; devours bees ; and in the season of huckle- 

 berries they form the chief part of its food. Its northern migrations 

 extend as far as Newfoundland. 



The length of this species is five inches and a half, in breadth nine 

 inches ; the upper parts are of a green olive color ; the lower pale 

 greenish yellow, darkest on the breast ; the wings are deep brown, 

 crossed with two bars of yellowish white, and a ring of the same sur- 

 rounds the eye, which is hazel. The tail is rounded at the end ; the 

 bill is remarkably flat and broad, dark brown above, and flesh color 

 below ; legs and feet pale ash. The female diff'ers little from the male 

 in color. 



* Muscicapa acadica, Ghel. i., p. 947. — Latu. Ind. Orn. ii., p. 489. 



