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GREAT CRESTED FLYCATCHER. 
This species is eight inches and a half long, and thirteen inches 
in extent; the upper parts are of a dull greenish olive; the feath- 
ers on the head are pointed, centered with dark brown, ragged 
at the sides, and form a kind of blowzy crest; the throat and 
upper parts of the breast delicate ash; rest of the lower parts a 
sulphur yellow; the wing coverts are pale drab, crossed with 
two bars of dull white ; the primaries are of a bright ferruginous 
or sorrel colour; the tail is slightly forked, its interior vanes of 
the same bright ferruginous as the primaries; the bill is blackish, 
very much like that of the King-bird, furnished also with brist- 
les; the eye is hazel; legs and feet bluish black. The female can 
scarcely be distinguished, by its colours, from the male. 
This bird also feeds on berries towards the end of summer, 
particularly on huckle-berries, which, during the time they last, 
seem to form the chief sustenance of the young birds. I have ob- 
served this species here as late as the tenth of September; rarely 
later. They do not, to my knowledge, winter in any of the 
southern states. 
