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SMALL BLUE-GRA Y FL YCA TCHER. 



figure in the plate was taken was the actual nurse of the 

 young cowpen bunting which it is represented in the act of 

 feeding. 



It is five inches long, and seven in extent; the whole upper 

 parts, green olive ; something brownish on the neck, tips of 

 the wings, and head ; the lower parts, yellow, brightest on the 

 throat and vent ; legs, flesh coloured. The chief difference 

 between this and the male, in the markings of their plumage, 

 is, that the female is destitute of the black bar through the 

 eyes, and the bordering one of pale bluish white. 



SMALL BLUE-GRAY FLYCATCHER. (Muscicapa 

 ccerulea.) 



PLATE XVIII. -Fig. 5. 



Motacilla coerulea, Turton, Syst. i. p. 612. — Blue Flycatcher, Edio. pi. 302. — 

 Regulus griseus, the Little Bluish-grey Wren, Bartram, p. 291.— Le Figuier 

 gris de fer, Buff. v. p. 309. —Cerulean Warhler, Arct. Znol. ii. No. 299.— 

 Lath. Syn. iv. p. 490, No. 127.— Peales Museum, No. 6829. 



CULICIVORA C(ERULEA.—Swaissox.* 



Culicivora, Sw. New Groups in Orn. Zool. Journ. No. 11, p. 359. — Sylvia 

 coerulea, Bonap. Synop. p. 85.— The Blue-Gray Flycatcher, Aud. pi. 84, male 

 and female, Orn. Biog. i. p. 431. 



This diminutive species, but for the length of the tail, would 

 rank next to our humming bird in magnitude. It is a very 

 dexterous flycatcher, and has also something of the manners 

 of the titmouse, with whom, in early spring and fall, it fre- 

 quently associates. It arrives in Pennsylvania from the south 

 about the middle of April ; and about the beginning of May 

 builds its nest, which it generally fixes among the twigs of a 

 tree, sometimes at the height of ten feet from the ground, 

 sometimes fifty feet high, on the extremities of the tops of a 



* This species will represent another lately formed genus, of which 

 the Muscicapa stenura of Temminck's PI. coloriees forms the type. It is 

 a curious group, connecting Tyrannula, Setophaga, the Flycatchers, and 

 the Sylviadoe. — Ed. 



