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MUSCICAPA QUERULA. 
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 bristles ; 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 observed this species here as 
late as the 10th of September ; rarely later. They do not, 
to my knowledge, winter in any of the southern States. 
76 . MUSCICAPA QUERULA , WILSON -M. ACADICA, GMELIN. 
SMALL GREEN CRESTED FLYCATCHER. 
WILSON, PLATE XIII. FIG. III. 
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 w^oods ; and, as it flies from one tree 
to another, has a low querulous note, something like 
the twitterings of chickens nestling under the wrings 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 beginning 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 
season of huckle-berries, they form the chief part of 
its food. Its northern migrations extend as far as 
Newfoundland. 
