JoS THE NATURAL HISTORY 
The FORK-TAILED FL Y-C AT CHER, 
Has a long forked tail, the plumage of its back black, 
beneath white. 
It inhabits Canada, and Surinam, and is about 
the fize of the crefled Lark ; it is feen continually 
flying down from trees in the neighbourhood of 
plains that are covered with water, alighting up¬ 
on the little hillocks, or the plants that fwim on 
tllf furface, and flirting its tail continually, like 
the Water Wagtail. 
The CRESTED FLY-CATCHER. 
The neck is blue, beneath yellow, the back greenilh, the 
■wine and tail feathers a reddilh brown. 
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It breeds in Carolina, and Virginia, retiring 
in winter to a warmer climate; its cry is very 
difagreeable ; it aflociates with no other bird, and 
feems of a favage, and fullen character. 
Its neft is made of fnakes lkins, and hair, in 
holes of trees. 
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