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NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Myiarchus crinitus, Cabanis. 



OBEAT CHESTED FLTCATCHEB. 



Muscicapa crinitn, LiNN. Syst. Xat. I, 1766, 325. — Wilson, Am. Orn. II, 1810, 75, pi. 

 xiii. — LiciiT. Verzciohniss Doubl. 1S23, No. 559. — Aui). Orn. Biog. II, 1834, 176; 

 V, 423, i>l. rxxix. — Ii5. Birds Am. I, 1840, 209, j>l. Ivii. Tijruiiaiis crinitus, Swain- 

 sox, Moil. Tyrant Shrikes in (Quarterly Journal, XX, Jan. 1826, 271. — Nuttali^ 

 Man. I, i2J t**!-.^ 1840, 302. —Max. Cab. J. VI, 1858, 182. Miiiohins crinitus, C,\\\\, 

 Genera, I, 248. Ti/runnula crinitn, Boxaf. Consp. 1850, 189. — Kaup, Pr. Zobl. 

 Soc. 1851, 51. Myiarchus crinitus, Cabaxis, Joum. fiir Ornith. Ill, 1855, 479. — 

 Baiud, Birds N. Am. 1858, 178. —8cl. Catal. 1862, 232. —Samuels, 131. Myimax 

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

 ana, Gm. Syst. Nat. I, 1788, 934. — Latham, Ind. Tijrannus hidoricianus, Vieillot, 

 Ois. Am. Sept. I, 1807, pi. xlv. Muscic^xpa virginiaiui cristata, Bkissox, II, 1760, 

 412. Crested FI>/catcJicr, Pexxaxt, Latham. 



Figure : BuFFox, 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 ba.se 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 snliihur-yellow. 

 A pale ring round the eye. Sides of the breast 

 I V .> ^^ ,^^^. ^.^, ^-^., and body tinged with olivaceous. The wings 

 ';' ,^ ■ ; -5?^, ^ .^;-c'Vc^^%'^^ brown; the first .ind second rows of coverts, 



■ with tlio sec*)ndarv and tertiff quil's, margined 



mymrcnus nnerascens. ,, • i i ii i •, ^i i \.^ ^- i . 



externally witli dull white, or on the latter sliglit- 

 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. 



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

 observed fiirther west). Guatemala (Sol. Ibis. I, 121); Cuba (Gcndl. Repert. 18G5, 239; 

 Cab. J. Ill, 479) ; ? Jamaica (Gosse, B. J. 180) ; Panama (Lawr. N. Y. Lye. 18G1, 329) ; 

 Costa Rica (Cabax. J. 18G1, 250; Lawr. N. Y. Lye. IX, 115); San Antonio, Texas 

 (Dresser, Ibis, 1805, 473, rare). 



Tlie female api^ears to have no brown on the inner web of the quills along 

 the shaft, or else it is confined chief! v to the outer feathers. 



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

 tinged with rustv at the ends. 



