THE GREAT-CRESTED FLYCATCHER. Bled | 
interests of agriculture are greater than those of a hive of 
bees. 
About the middle of September, this bird with his family 
and neighbors gather into a scattered flock, and depart for 
the south, spending the winter in Central America and 
Southern Mexico. 
MYIARCHUS, Caspanis. 
Myiarchus, CABANIS, Fauna Peruana (1844-46) 152. Burmeister, Thiere Bra- 
siliens, II. Vogel (1856) 469. 
Tarsus equal to, or not longer than, the middle toe, which is decidedly longer 
than the hinder one; bill wider:at base than half the culmen; tail broad, long, even, 
or slightly rounded, about equal to the wings, which scarcely reach the middle of 
the tail, the first primary shorter than the sixth; head with elongated lanceolate 
distinct feathers; above brownish-olive; throat ash; belly yellow; tail and wing 
feathers varied with rufous. 
MYIARCHUS CRINITUS. — Cabanis. 
The Great-crested Flycatcher. 
Muscicapa crinita, Linneus. Syst. Nat., I. (1766) 325. Wilson, Am. Orn., Il. 
(1810) 75. Aud. Orn. Biog., II. (1834) 176; V. 423. 
Tyrannus crinitus. Nutt. Man., I. (2d ed., 1840) 302. 
DESCRIPTION. 
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 twenty-five one- 
hundredths 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; upper 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 
ofthe 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 quills, margined externally with dull-white, 
or on the latter slightly tinged with olivaceous-yellow; primaries margined exter- 
nally 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. 
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. 
Length, eight and seventy-five one-hundredths inches; wing, four and twenty- 
