196 EEPOET OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 



Another straggler from the far West. One specimen was taken by 

 Professor A. H. Phillips at Princeton, September 29th, 1894, which 

 is in his collection.^ 



452 Myiarchus crinitus (Linnaeus). 

 Great Crested Flycatcher. 



PLATE 45. 



Adults. — Length, 8.50-9. Wing, 4.25. Above, dull olive ; feathers on the 

 head with duskj' centers ; wings with two light bars and light edgings to the 

 tertials ; outer webs of primaries, rusty ; middle pair of tail feathers and outer 

 webs of the others, olive-brown ; inner webs, cinnamon rufous ; throat and 

 breast, gray ; abdomen, sulphur yellow. 



Young in first summer. — Similar, but more tinged with rusty. 



Nest in a hollow of a tree trunk or in the end of a broken hollow limb ; com- 

 posed of grass, etc., and almost invariably of pieces of cast snake skin ; eggs, 

 three to six, cream colored, streaked with brown, .85 x .65. 



Common summer resident. Arrives April 29th (May 4th), departs 

 September 1st. 



The loud, harsh cry of this Flycatcher once heard will never be for- 

 gotten. It carries far across the woodland, and once back from his 

 winter home, the bird is not slow to announce his arrival. When sev- 

 eral Great Crests are chasing each other through the woods the racket 

 is really startling. They are not always woodland birds, but fre- 

 quently nest in old apple trees in the orchard, and become quite 

 familiar, giving us a good view of their fine erectile crest and dis- 

 tinctive coloring. Besides the harsh cry, usually repeated rapidly 

 several times, they have a more plaintive single call that I have fre- 

 quently heard about dusk from a bird that had established a roosting 

 place in a thick maple near our porch. 



456 Sayornis phoebe (Latham). 

 Phoebe. 



Adults. — Length, 6.25-7. Wing, 3.30. Above, grayish olive-brown ; wings 

 and tail more dusky ; top and sides of head, sooty brown ; under parts, dull 

 white, much yellower in autumn. 



Stone, Birds of E. Pa. and N. J., p. 152. 



