U. S. P. E. E EXP. AND SUEVEYS ZOOLOGY GENEEAL RE POET. 
0. Inner web of tail feathers entirely brown, with only a narrow edging of rufous. 
Outer primary edged with rufous. First primary shorter than secondaries. No 
whitish bands on wing 31. lawrencii. 
Comparative measurements of the species. 
Catal. No 
Species. 
Locality. 
Sex. 
Length. 
Stretch of 
wings. 
Wing. 
Tail. 
Tarsus. 
Middle toe. 
Its claw 
alone. 
Bill above. 
Along gape. 
Specimen 
measured. 
Remarks. 
1449 
do 
1426 
do 
9100 
5509 
7940 
3918 
10026 
3 
7.80 
8.75 
8.75 
8.30 
7.80 
4.12 
4.25 
3.90 
4.08 
4.06 
4.00 
4.02 
3.96 
3.28 
4.06 
0.80 
0.70 
0.26 
0.72 
0.98 
13.66 
do do 
do 
9 
3.82 
0.84 
0.64 
0.24 
0.76 
1.06 
13.25 
Mexico 
"s ' 
4.10 
4.24 
4.16 
4.06 
3.50 
0.90 
0.95 
0.90 
0.74 
0.70 
0.70 
0.50 
0.70 
0.62 
0.26 
0.24 
0.20 
0.22 
0.24 
0.80 
0.76 
0.70 
0.74 
0.66 
1.12 
1.00 
0.96 
1.04 
0.92 
Myiarchus mexieanus.... 
....do do 
do do 
Head off; feet 
broken. 
7.64 
6.62 
New Leon, Mex., San 
Q 
MYIARCHUS CRINITUS, Cab an is. 
Great Crested Flycatcher. 
Muscicapa crinita, Linn. Syst. Nat. I, 1766, 325. — Wilson, Am. Orn. II, 1810, 75 ; pi. xiii. — Licht. Verzeichniss 
Doubl. 1823, No. 559.— Aud. Orn. Biog. II, 1834, 176 : V, 423 ; pi. 129.— Ib. Birds Amer. 
I, 1840, 209 ; pi. 57. 
Tyrannus crinitus, Swainson, Mon. Tyrant Shrikes in Quarterly Journal, XX. Jan. 1826, 271. — Nuttall, Man. I, 
2d ed. 1840, 302. 
Myiobius crinitus, Gray, Genera, I, 248. 
Tyrannula crinita, Bonap. Consp. 1850, 189.— Kaup, Pr. Zool. Soc. 1851, 51. 
Myiarchus crinitus, Cabanis, Journ. fur Ornith. Ill, 1855, 479. 
Muscicapa hidoviciana, 6m. Syst. Nat. I, 1788, 934. — Latham Ind. 
Tyrannus ludovicianus, Vieillot, Ois. Am. Sept. I, 1807 ; pi. 45. 
" Tyrannus irritabilis, Vieillot." 
Muscicapa virginiana cristata, Brisson, II, 1760, 412. 
Crested flycatcher, Pennant, Latham. 
Figure, Buffon Enl. 569, fig. 1. 
Sp Ch. — Head with a depressed crest. Third quill longest ; fourth and second successively but little shorter ; first a little 
longer than seventh ; much shorter than sixth. Tail decidedly rounded or even graduated ; the lateral feather about .25 of an 
inch shorter. Upper parts dull greenish olive, with the feathers of the crown and to some extent of the back showing their 
brown centres; upper tail coverts turning to pale rusty brown. Small feathers at the base of the bill, ceres, sides of the head as 
high as the upper eyelid, sides of the neck, throat, and forepart of the breast bluish ashy ; the rest of the lower parts, including 
axillaries and lower wing coverts, bright sulphur yellow ; a pale ring round the eye. Sides of the breast and body tinged with 
olivaceous. The wings brown ; the first and second rows of coverts, with the secondary and tertial quilis, margined externally 
with dull white, or on the latter slightly tinged with olivaceous yellow. Primaries margined externally for more than half their 
length from the base with ferruginous ; great portion of the inner webs of all the quills very pale ferruginous The two middle 
tail feathers light brown, shafts paler ; the rest have the outer web and a narrow line on the inner sides of the shaft brown, pale 
olivaceous on the outer edge ; the remainder ferruginous to the very tip. Outer web of exterior feather dull brownish yellow. 
Feet black. Bill dark brown above and at the tip below; paler towards the base. Length, 8.75 inches; wing, 4.25 ; tail, 
4.10 ; tarsus, .85. 
Hah. — Eastern North America to the Missouri and south to eastern Texas, (not yet observed further west.) 
The female appears to have no brown on the inner web of the quills along the shaft, or else 
it is confined chiefly to the outer feathers. 
