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GREAT CRESTED FLYCATCHER 



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, centered with dark brown, ragged at the 

 sides, and form a kind of blowzy 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 color ; 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 colors, from the male. 



This bird also feeds on berries towards the end of summer, 

 particularly on huckle-berries, which, during the time they last, 

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

 served this species here as late as the tenth of September ; rarely 

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

 states. 



