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MUSCICAPA QUERULA. 
a kind of blowzy crest ; the throat, and upper parts 
the breast, delicate ash; rest of the lower parts, a sulphu'^ 
yellow; the winn--co verts are pale drab, crossed wit^ 
two bars of dull white ; the primaries are of a bri^bt 
ferruginous, or sorrel colour ; the tail is slightly forkft'*' 
its interior vanes of the same bright ferruginous .as tbi’ 
primaries ; the bill is blackish, very much like that 
the king bird, furnished also with bristles ; the eye '' 
hazel; legs and feet, bluish black. The female d*" 
scarcely be distinguished, by its colours, from the mak’ 
This bird also feeds on berries towards the end 
summer, particularly on huckle-berries, which, during 
the time they last, seem to form the chief sustenance 
the young liirds. I have observed this sjiecies here »•" 
late as the 1 0th of September ; rarely later. They do no'’ 
to my knowledge, winter iii any of the southern States' 
76 . UUSCICAFA QUEItULA, WILSON.— M. ACAniCA, GMELIN. 
SMALL GREEK CRESTED FLYCATCHER. 
WILSON, PLATE XIII. FIG. III. 
This bird is hut little known. It inhabits the deepest 
thick shaded, solitary parts of the woods, sits o-eneraliy 
on the lower branches, utters, everv half minute or se> 
a sudden sharp sipteak, which is heard a eonsiderabl* 
way through the woods ; and, as it flies from one irf^ 
to another, has a low querulous note, somefhin'r liK 
of ebickens nestling under the wine's d 
the hen. On alighting, this souud ceases, and it nttef' 
Its note as before. It arrives from the south about tk' 
middle of May ; builds on the up|)er side of a limb, >" 
a low swampy part of the woods, and lays five whik 
ff leaves us about the beginning of Septerab^^’ 
It is a rare and very solitary bird, always hauntino- tb* 
most gloomy, moist, and unfrequented parts of the fore^f 
It feeds on flying insects, devours bees and in tb^ 
season of huckle-berries, they form the chief’ part 
Its food. Its northern migrations extend as far 
Newfoundland. 
