SMALL BLUE GREY FLYCATCHER. 



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highest branches, and is seldom seen among the humbler thickets* 

 It remains with us until the twentieth or twenty-eighth of Septem- 

 ber; after which we see no more of it till the succeeding spring. 

 I observed this bird near Savannah, in Georgia, early in March ; 

 but it does not winter even in the southern parts of that state. 



The length of this species is four inches and a half, extent six 

 and a half; front and line over the eye black; bill black, very slen- 

 der, overhanging at the tip, notched, broad, and furnished with 

 bristles at the base ; the color of the plumage above is a light bluish 

 grey, bluest on the head, below bluish white; tail longer than the 

 body, a little rounded, and black, except the exterior feathers, which 

 are almost all white, and the next two also tipt with white; tail 

 coverts black; wings brownish black, some of the secondaries next 

 the body edged with white; legs extremely slender, about three- 

 fourths of an inch long, and of a bluish black color. The female 

 is distinguished by wanting the black line round the front. 



The food of this bird is small winged insects and their larvae, 

 but particularly the former, which it seems almost always in pur- 

 suit of. 



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