SPECIES 5. MUSCICJiPJi QUERUL^* 
SMALL GREEN, CRESTED FLYCATCHER. 
[Plate XIIL— Fig. 3.] 
Mtiscicapa subviridis, Bahtram, p. 289. — ,Brct. Zool. p. 386, JVb. 
268. — Peale’s Museum, JVo. 6825. 
This 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 considerable way through the woods; and as it 
flies from one tree to another has a low querulous note, some- 
thing 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 begin- 
ning 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 flying insects; devours bees; and in the sea- 
son 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 colour; 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 surrounds the eye, which is hazel. The tail 
is rounded at the end; the bill is remarkably flat and broad, 
dark brown above, and flesh colour below; legs and feet pale 
ash. The female differs little from the male in colour. 
* Muscicapa acadica, Gmel. i, p. 947. — Lath. Ind. Orn. ii, p. 489. 
