226 SMALL GREEN-CRESTED FLYCATCHER. 



the fact, however, is notorious. The female lays four eggs of 

 a dull cream colour, thickly scratched with purple lines of 

 various tints, as if done with a pen (see fig. 2). 



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

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

 the feathers on the head are pointed, centred with dark brown, 

 ragged at the sides, and form a kind of blowsy 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 bristles ; 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 huckleberries, which, during the time they last, 

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

 observed this species here as late as the 10th of September ; 

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

 the southern States. 



SMALL GEEEN-CEESTED FLYCATCHER* 



{Muscicapa querula) 



PLATE XIII.— Fig. 3. 



Muscicapa subviridis, Bartram, p. 289. — Arct. Zool. p. 386, No. 268. — Peak's 

 Museum, No. 6825. 



TYRANNULA ACADICA.—Swainson. 



Muscicapa acadica, Bonap. Synop. p. 68. 



This bird is but little known. It inhabits the deepest, thick 

 shaded, solitary parts of the woods, sits generally on the lower 



* This species, with the two following of our author, have been sepa- 

 rated from the tyrants, and placed in a subgenus, Tyrannula. They 



