408 THE NATURAL HISTORY. 
Tu FORK-TAILED FLY- CATCHER, 







ay long forked tail, the plumage of its back ble 
nypectl white. 
ef inhabits Canada, and Surinam, and is about 
the fize of the crefted Lark 3 it 1s 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 
the furface, and flirting its tail pees ‘ like 
the Water Ww agtail. 
Tus CRESTED FLY-CATCHER. 
The neck is blue,- bese yellow, the back greeny the 
wing and tail feathers a reddilh brown. " 
It breeds in Carolina, and Vinci. 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 chara@ter. 
Its neft is made of fhakes nicer and hair, it 
_ holes of trees. 
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