COW BUNTING. 
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The Solitary Flycatcher is live inches long-, and eight inches 
in breadth ; cheeks, and upper part of the head and neck, a 
line bluish gray ; breast, pale cinereous ; flanks and sides of 
the breast, yellow ; whole back and tail-coverts, green olive ; 
wings, nearly black ; the first and second row of coverts, tipt 
with white ; the three secondaries next the body, edged with 
pale yellowish white ; the rest of the quills bordered with 
light green; tail, slightly forked, of the same tint as the 
wings, and edged with light green ; from the nostrils a line of 
white proceeds to and encircles the eye ; lores, black ; belly 
and vent, white ; upper mandible, black ; lower, light blue ; 
legs and feet, light blue ; eyes, hazel. 
COW BUNTING.* — EMBERIZA PECORIS. 
Plate XVIII. Figs. 1, 2, and 3. 
Le Brunet, Huff. iv. 138. — Le Pin 9 on de Virginie, Briss. iii. 165. — Cow-pen Bird, 
Catesb. i. 34. — Lath. ii. 269 Arct. Zool. p. 371, No. 241 Sturnus sterco- 
■ rarius, Bartram , p. 291. — Peale's Museum , No. 6378, male ; 6379, female. 
MO LOT HR US PECORIS. — Swainson. 
Fringilla pecoris, Sab. Frank. Journ. p. 676. — Sturnus junceti, Lath. Ind. Orn . — 
Emberiza pecoris, Bonap. Nomencl. No. 89. — Icterus pecoris, Bonap. Synop. p. 
53. — Aglaius pecoris, Sw. Synop. Birds of Mex. Phil. Mag. June, 1827, p. 436. — 
The Cow-pen Bird, Aud. pi. 99; Orn. Biog. i. p. 493 Molothrus pecoris, 
• North. Zool. ii. p. 277. 
There is one striking peculiarity in the works of the great 
Creator, which becomes more amazing the more we reflect 
on it ; namely, that lie has formed no species of animals so 
minute, or obscure, that are not invested with certain powers 
and peculiarities, both of outward conformation, and internal 
* The American Cuckoo, ( Cuculus Carolinensis ,) is by many people called 
the Cow Bird, from the sound of its notes resembling the words Cow , cow. 
This bird builds its own nest very artlessly in a cedar or an apple tree, and 
lays four greenish blue eggs, which it hatches, and rears its young with great 
tenderness. 
