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SMALL BLUE-GRAY FLYCATCHER. 
the figure in the plate was taken, was the actual nurse of the 
young Cow-pen Bunting, which it is represented in the act of 
feeding. 
It is five inches long, and seven in extent; the whole upper 
parts, green olive ; something brownish on the neck, tips of 
the wings, and head ; the lower parts, yellow, brightest on 
the throat and vent ; legs, flesh coloured. The chief diffe- 
rence between this and the male, in the markings of their 
plumage, is, that the female is destitute of the black bar 
through the eyes, and the bordering one of pale bluish 
white. 
SMALL BLUE-GRAY FLYCATCHER. — MUSCICAPA 
COERULEA Plate XVIII. Fig. 5. 
* 
Motacilla coerulea, Turton , Syst. i. p. 612. — Blue Flycatcher, Edw. pi. 302 — 
Regulus griseus, the Little Bluish-gray Wren, Bartram, p. 291. — Le figuier gris de 
fer, Buff. v. p. 309 Cerulean Warbler, Arct. Zool. ii. No. 299. — Lath. Syn. 
iv. p. 490, No. 127. — Beale's Museum, No. 6829. 
CULICIVORA CCER ULEA. — Swain son.* 
Culicivora, Sw. New Groups in Orn. Zool. Journ. No. 11, p. 359. — Sylvia 
coerulea, Bonap. Synop. p. 85. — The Blue Gray Flycatcher, Aud. pi. 84. male and 
female; Orn. Biog. i. p. 431. 
This diminutive species, but for the length of the tail, 
would rank next to our Humming Bird in magnitude. It is 
a very dexterous flycatcher, and has also something of the 
manners of the Titmouse, with whom, in early spring, and 
fall, it frequently associates. It arrives in Pennsylvania, from 
the south, about the middle of April ; and, about the beginning 
of May, builds its nest, which it generally fixes among the 
twigs of a tree, sometimes at the height of ten feet from the 
ground, sometimes fifty feet high, on the extremities of the 
* This species will represent another lately formed genus, of which the 
Muscicapa stenura of Temminck’s PI. coloriees forms the type. It is a curious 
group, connecting Tyrannula, Setophaga, the Flycatchers, and the Sylviadce. — Ed. 
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