242 FLYCATCHER. 



140.— CRESTED FLYCATCHER. 



Muscicapa crinita, Ind. Orn. ii. 485. Lin. i. 325. Gm. Lin. i. 934. Vieill. Am. i. 



p. 75. pi. 45. Amer. Orn. ii. pi. 13. f. 2. — Bird & Egg. 

 Muscicapa Virginiana cristata, Bris. ii. 412. Id. 8vo. i. 272. 

 Le Suiriii guazu, Voy. d 1 Azara, iii. No. 198. 

 Gobe-mouche huppe de Virginie, PI. enl. 569. 1. Buf. iv. 565. 

 Crested Flycatcher, Gen. Syn. iii. 357. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 267. Gates. Gar. i. pi. 52. 



Gent. Mag. xxii. pi. in p. 556. 



LENGTH eight inches and a half, breadth twelve and a half. 

 Bill black, one inch long, stout, depressed, and bristly at the base ; 

 irides hazel ; head crested, dull green ; hind part of the neck and 

 back the same ; wing and tail coverts brown ; margins of the quills 

 within, and under wing coverts, pale yellow ; beneath from chin to 

 breast ash-colour, from thence to the vent yellow; quills and tail 

 brown, the edges of the former chestnut, the latter even at the end, 

 the two middle feathers plain, the others chestnut on the inner webs; 

 the quills reach to about the middle of the tail ; legs very short, and 

 black. The female differs but little, except in the colours being 

 less bright. 



Inhabits Carolina and Virginia in summer, retiring in autumn ; 

 at the same time is seen in Georgia, and there called by some the 

 Flat Head ; for the crown, when the feathers are not erected, has a 

 fiat appearance ; builds there the beginning of May : the nest com- 

 posed outwardly of dried leaves and moss, lined with finer moss and 

 hay ; the female lays five very pale green eggs, marked with nume- 

 rous small brown dots, nearly all over alike; feeds on bees, and 

 other insects, also berries, pai-ticularly huckle berries.* 



The Crested Species comes into Paraguay in September, and goes 

 away in spring ; never seen on the ground, on account of the 

 shortness of the legs ; sits on a branch, and from thence springs on 



* Vaccinium macrocarpon. 



