COW BUNTING. 



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The solitary flycatcher is five inches long, and eight inches 

 in breadth ; cheeks and upper part of the head and neck, a 

 fine bluish gray ; breast, pale cinereous ; flanks and sides of 

 the breast, yellow ; whole back and tail-coverts, green olive ; 

 wings, nearly black ; the first and second row of coverts tipt 

 with white ; the three secondaries next the body edged with 

 pale yellowish white ; the rest of the quills bordered with 

 light green ; tail, slightly forked, of the same tint as the 

 wings, and edged with light green ; from the nostrils a line 

 of white proceeds to and encircles the eye ; lores, black ; belly 

 and vent, white ; upper mandible, black ; lower, light blue ; 

 legs and feet, light blue ; eyes, hazel. 



COW BUNTING.^ {Emberim pecoris) 



PLATE XVIII.— Figs. 1, 2, and 3. 



Le Brunet, Buff. iv. 138. — Le Pincon de Virginie, Briss. iii. 165. — Cowpen Bird, 

 Catesb. i. 34.— Lath. ii. 269.— Arct. Zool. p. 371, No. 241.— Sturnus sterco- 

 rarius, Bartram, p. 291. — Peale's Museum, No. 6378, male ; 6379, female. 



MOLOTHRUS PECORIS.— Swawsok. 



Fringilla pecoris, Sab. Frank. Journ. p. 676. — Sturnus junceti, Lath. Ind. Orn. — 

 Emberiza pecoris, Bonap. Nomencl. No. 89. — Icterus pecoris, Bonap. Synop. 

 p. 53. — Aglaius pecoris, Sw. Synop. Birds of Hex. Phil. Mag. June 1827, p. 

 436.— The Cowpen Bird, And. pi. 99, Orn. Biog. i. p. 493.— Molothrus 

 pecoris, North. Zool. ii. p. 277. 



There is one striking peculiarity in the works of the great 

 Creator, which becomes more amazing the more we reflect 

 on it ; namely, that He has formed no species of animals so 

 minute or obscure that are not invested with certain powers 

 and peculiarities, both of outward conformation and internal 



* The American cuckoo (Cuculus Carolinensis) is by many people 

 called the cow bird, from the sound of its notes resembling the words 

 cow, covj. This bird builds its own nest very artlessly in a cedar or 

 an apple tree, and lays four greenish blue eggs, which it hatches, and 

 rears its young with great tenderness. 



