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SYLVIA CJER0LEA. 
individuals, are found in the depth of the pine Barren®' 
and are easily known by their manner of risings fron' 
the ground, and alighting on the body of the tree. Th®.'' 
also often glean among the topmost boughs of the pi**® 
trees, hanging, head downwards, like the titmouse. 
124. SYLFIA CJERUI.EA, LATH JdUSClCAFA CMRULEA, 
SMALL BLUE GKAY FLYCATCHER. 
WILSON-, PLATE XVHI. Flo. T. 
Tins diminutive species, but for the length of 
tail, would rank ne.\t to our humming bird in mag®' 
tudo. It is a very dexterous flycatcher, and has 
something of the manners of the titmouse, with wb®’?' 
in early spring, and fall, it frequently associates. * 
arrives in Pennsylvania, from the south, about 
middle of April; and, about the beginning of 
builds its nest, which it generally fixes among 
twigs of a tree, sometimes at the height of ten feet 
the ground, sometimes fifty feet high, on the extreinib^' 
of the tops of a high tree in the woods. This nest ’’ 
formed of very slight and perishable materials, the bn®f 
of buds, stems of old leaves, withered blossoms of we®7 
down from the stalks of fern, coated on the outsi®f 
with gray lichen, and lined with a few horse ha®? 
Yet in this frail receptacle, which one would thi®. 
scarcely suflicient to admit the body of the owner, 
sustain even its weight, does the female cow h®? 
venture to deposit her egg ; and to the management ® 
Bmse pigmy nurses leaves the fate of her helpless you®!'' 
The motions of this little bird are quick ; he 
always on the look-out for insects; darts about fr® 
one part of the tree to another, with hanging wi®^ 
and erected tail, making a feeble chirping, tsee, tscSy ®., 
louder than a mouse. Though so small in itself, ^ 
ambitious of hunting on the highest branches, . 
seldom seen among the humbler thickets. It reina'®: 
with us until the 20th or 28th of September ; 
which we see no more of it till the succeeding spO®r' 
