274 GREAT CRESTED FLYCATCHER. 



This species is eight inches and a half long, and thirteen inches 

 in extent; the upper parts are of a dull greenish olive; the feath- 

 ers on the head are pointed, centered with dark brown, ragged 

 at the sides, and form a kind of blowzy crest; the throat and 

 upper parts of the breast delicate ash; rest of the lower parts a 

 sulphur yellow; the wing coverts are pale drab, crossed with 

 two bars of dull white; the primaries are of a bright ferruginous 

 or sorrel colour; the tail is slightly forked, its interior vanes of 

 the same bright ferruginous as the primaries; the bill is blackish, 

 very much like that of the King-bird, furnished also with brist- 

 les; the eye is hazel; legs and feet bluish black. The female can 

 scarcely be distinguished, by its colours, from the male. | 



This bird also feeds on berries towards the end of summer, 

 particularly on huckle-berries, which, during the time they last, 

 seem to form the chief sustenance of the young birds. I have ob- 

 served this species here as late as the tenth of September; rarely 

 later. They do not, to my knowledge, winter in any of the 

 southern states. 



