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NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Myiarchus crinitus, Cabanis. 



GREAT CRESTED FLYCATCHER. 



Muscicapa crinita, Linn. Syst. Nat. I, 1766, 325. — Wilson, Am. Orn. II, 1810, 75, pi. 

 xiii. — LiCHT. Verzeichniss Doubl. 1823, No. 559. —Auu. Orn. Biog. II, 1834, 176; 

 V, 423, pi. cxxix. — Ib. Bird.s Am. I, 1840, 209, pi. Ivii. Tijranmis crinitus, Swain- 

 son, Mon. Tyrant Shrikes in Quarterly Journal, XX, Jan. 1826, 271. — Nuttall, 

 Man. I, (2(1 ed.,) 1840, 302. —Max. Cab. J. VI, 1858, 182. Myiohius crinitus. Gray, 

 Genera, I, 248. Tyrannula crinita, Bonap. Consp. 1850, 189. — Kaup, Pr. Zool. 

 Soc. 1851, 51. Myiarchus crinitus, Cabanis, Journ. fiir Ornith. Ill, 1855, 479. — 

 Baird, Birds N. Am. 1858, 178. — Scl. Catal. 1862, 232. —Samuels, 131. Myionax 

 crinitus, Caban. Mus. Hein. 1859, 73 (type, Journ. 1861, 250). Muscicapa ludovici- 

 ana, Gm. Syst. Nat. I, 1788, 934. — Latham, Ind. Tyrannus ludovicianus, Vieillot. 

 Ois. Am. Sept. I, 1807, pi. xlv. Muscicapa virginiana cristata, Bhisson, II, 1760, 

 412. Crested Flycatcher, Pennant, Latham. 



Figure : BuFFON, pi. enl. 569, fig. 1. 



Sp. Char. 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 feath- 

 ers of the crown and to some extent of the 

 back showing their brown centres ; upper tail- 

 coverts turning to pale rusty-brown. Small feath- 

 ers 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 roAvs of coverts, 

 with the secondary and tertial quills, margined 

 externally with dull white, or on the latter slight- 

 ly 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 oliva- 

 ceous on the outer edge ; the remainder ferruginous to the very tip. Outer web of ex- 

 terior feather dull brownish-yellow. Feet black. Bill dark brown above and at the tip 

 below ; paler towards the base. Length, 8.75 ; wing, 4.25 ; tail, 4.10 ; tarsus, .85. 



Hab. Eastern North America to the Missouri and south to Eastern Texas (not yet 

 observed farther west). Gruatemala (Sol. Ibis, I, 121); Cuba (Gundl. Repert. 1865, 239; 

 Cab. J. Ill, 479) ; ? Jamaica (Gosse, B. J. 186) ; Panama (Lawr. N. Y. Lye. 1861, 329) ; 

 Costa Rica (Caban. J. 1861, 250; Lawr. N. Y. Lye. IX, 115); San Antonio, Texas 

 (Dresser, Ibis, 1865, 473, rare). 



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. 



The young is hardly appreciably different, having merely the wing-coverts 

 tinged with rusty at the ends. 



Myiarchus cinerascens. 



