.386 CRESTED, AND LESSER-CRESTED FLY-CATCHER. 



Pj>^ace. Inhabits the interior pares of C(?r£'//««j two or three hunrdred miles 



from the fta. Is fo very ihy, as to be fhot with the utmoft diffi- 

 culty. Lives by the banks of great rivers j and makes fo loud a 

 chattering, as to reverberate from rock to rock. Flies with its 

 legs hanging dov/n. Its mufical note is good. Often flies up per- 

 pendicular, and lights by jerks. 



367. CrISTEIX. defied Fly-catcher, Catejby,'\. t^z, — Latham, ii. 357. 



Mufcieapa crinita, Lin. Sjjl, 325. 

 Le Gobe-Mouche hupe As Virginiej BriJJhn, il. 412. 



Le Moucherolle de Virginie a huppe verte, De Buffbn, iv. ^S^.—Pl. EnL 569, 

 — Bl. Mus. 



"pL. With an upright creft : head and back olive : the coverts of 

 the fame color, crofTed with two white lines : primaries dufky^ 

 the four firft edged, on their outmoft fides, with ferruginous : tail 

 dufky i two middle feathers plain -, the inner webs of the others 

 orange : neck and breaft of a lead-color : belly and thighs yellow : 

 legs black. I have feen one of a cinereous color on the upper 

 parts, and white belly : perhaps a young bird, or a hen. Weight 

 one ounce. 

 ^'"^" Length eight inches. Sent from New Tork, with the name of the 



Large Wild Fhceby Bird, or Bee-eater. 

 Place. Breeds in New York and Carolina. Its note extremely brawling, 



as if at enmity with all other birds. Makes its neft of fnake-lkins and 

 hair, in holes of trees. Retires in Augujt, 



268. Lesser- t7l. With a fmall backward creft : head, neck, and back, of a 

 dirty light cinereous green : breaft and belly whitifh, tinged with 

 yellow : wings and tail dufky ; coverts crofled with two bars of 

 ■white J fecondaries edged with white : legs black, 

 Placi,' Inhabits Neva Scotia, Captain Davies, 



Slack. 



