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C. Inner web of tail ieathers entirely brown, with only a narrow edging of rufous. 



Oui-er primary edged with rufous. First primary shorter than secondaries. No 

 whitish bands on wing M. lawrencii. 



Comparative measurements of the species. 



MYIAECHUS CRINITUS, Cab an is. 



Great Crested Flycatcher. 



Muscicapa crinita, Linn. Syst. Nat. I, 1766, 325. — Wilsok, Am. Orn. II, 1810, 75 ; pi. xiii. — Light. Verzeichnisg 

 Doubl. 1823, No. 559.— Anp. Orn. Biog. II, 1834, 176 : V, 423 ; pi. 129.— Ib. Birds Amer. 

 I, 1840,209; pi. 57. 



Tjyrannuj crinitus, Swainson, Mon. Tyrant Shrikes in Quarterly Journal, XX. Jan. 1826, 271. — ^Nottall, Man. I, 

 2ded. 1840,302. 



Mylobius crinitus, Gray, Genera, I, 248. 



Tyrannula crinita, Bonaf. Consp. 1850, 189. — Kaop, Pr. Zool. Soc. 1851, 51. 



Myiarchus crinitus, Cabanis, Journ. fiir Ornith. HI, 1855, 479. 



JVuscicapa ludoviciana, Gm. Syst. Nat. I, 1788, 934. — Latham Ind. 



Tyrannus ludovicianus, Vieillot, Ois. Am. Sept. I, 1807 ; pi. 45. 



" Tyrannus irrilabilis, Vieillot." 



Muscicapa virginiana cri^tata, Brisson, II, 1760, 413. 



Crested flycatcher, Pennant, Latham. 



Figure, Buffon Enl. 569, fig. 1. 



Sp Ch. — Head with a depressed crest. Third quill longest ; fourth and second successively but little shorter ; first a little 

 longer than seventh ; much shorter than sixth. Tail decidedly rounded or even graduated ; the lateral feather about .25 of an 

 inch shorter. Upper parts dull greenish olive, with the feathers of the crown and to some extent of the back showing their 

 brown centres; uppsr tail coverts turning to pale rusty brown. Small feathers at the base of the bill, ceres, sides of the head as 

 high as the upper eyelid, sides of the neck, throat, and forepart of the breast bluish ashy ; the rest of the lower parts, including 

 axillaries and lower wing coverts, bright sulphur yellow ; a pale ring round the eye. Sides of the breast and body tinged with 

 olivaceous. The wings brown ; the first and second rows of coverts, with the secondary and tertial quilis, margined externally 

 with dull white, or on the latter slightly tinged with olivaceous yellow. Primaries margined externally for more than half their 

 length from the base with ferruginous ; great portion of the inner webs of all the quills very pale ferruginous The two middle 

 tail feathers light brown, shafts paler ; the rest have the outer web and a narrow line on the inner sides of the shaft brown, pale 

 olivaceous on the outer edge ; the remainder ferruginous to the very tip. Outer web of exterior feather dull brownish yellow. 

 Feet black. Bill dark brown above and at the tip below; paler towards the base. Length, 8.75 inches; wing, 4.25; tail, 

 4.10; tarsus, .85. 



Hob. — Eastern North America to the Missouri and south to eastern Texas, (not yet observed further west.) 



The female appears to have no brown on the inner web of the quills along the shaft, or else 

 it is confined chiefly to the outer feathers. 



