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SMALL GREEN, CRESTED FLYCATCHER. 
ing towards the tips, lower parts pale yellowish white : the only dis- 
criminating marks between this and the preceding are the size, and the 
color of the lower mandible, which in this is yellow — in the Pewee 
black. The female is difficult to be distinguished from the male. 
This species is far more numerous than the preceding ; and probably 
winters much farther south. The Pewee was numerous in North and 
South Carolina, in February ; but the Wood Pewee had not made its 
appearance in the lower parts of Georgia even so late as the sixteenth 
of March. 
Species V. MUSCICAPA QUERULA* 
SMALL GREEN, CRESTED FLYCATCHER. 
[Plate XIII. Fig. 3.] 
Muscicapa subviridis, Bartram, p. 289. — Arct. Zool. p. 38G, No. 268. 
Tins bird is but little known. It inhabits the deepest, thick shaded, 
solitary parts of the woods, sits generally on the lower branches, utters 
every half minute or so, a sudden sharp squeak, which is heard a con- 
siderable way through the woods ; and as it flies from one tree to 
another has a low querulous note, something like the twitterings of 
chickens nestling under the wings of the hen. On alighting this sound 
ceases ; and it utters its note as before. It arrives from the south about 
the middle of May ; builds on the upper side of a limb, in a low swampy 
part of the woods, and lays five white eggs. It leaves us about the 
beginning of September. It is a rare and very solitary bird, always 
haunting the most gloomy, moist and unfrequented parts of the forest. 
It feeds on frying insects ; devours bees ; and in the season of huckle- 
berries they form the chief part of its food. Its northern migrations 
extend as far as Newfoundland. 
The length of this species is five inches and a half, in breadth nine 
inches ; the upper parts are of a green olive color ; the lower pale 
greenish yellow, darkest on the breast ; the wings are deep brown, 
crossed with two bars of yellowish white, and a ring of the same sur- 
rounds the eye, which is hazel. The tail is rounded at the end ; the 
bill is remarkably flat and broad, dark brown above, and flesh color 
below ; legs and feet pale ash. The female differs little from the male 
in color. 
* Muscicapa acadica, Gmel. r., p. 947. — Lath. hid. Orn. n., p. 489. 
