. Birds of America;. Birds -- North America. KINGLETS AND GNATCATCHERS 223 BLUE-GRAY GNATCATCHER Polioptila cserulea caerulea {Liiimciis) A I), r. Nuniliir r^i See Color Plate 104 Other Names.— Common Gnatcatclier : Little BIii- isli-srav Wren; Small Bhie-ijray Flycatcher: Sylvan Flycatcher. General Description.— Length. 4 1 _; inches. L'pper parts, bluish-gray; under parts, whitish. Color.— Adl'I-T M.\le; Crown and hindneck, idain bluish-gray, the back, shoulders, rump, and lesser wing-coverts slightly paler and less bluish ; froiil por- tion of forehead and sides of foreliead and rroii';;, b
. Birds of America;. Birds -- North America. KINGLETS AND GNATCATCHERS 223 BLUE-GRAY GNATCATCHER Polioptila cserulea caerulea {Liiimciis) A I), r. Nuniliir r^i See Color Plate 104 Other Names.— Common Gnatcatclier : Little BIii- isli-srav Wren; Small Bhie-ijray Flycatcher: Sylvan Flycatcher. General Description.— Length. 4 1 _; inches. L'pper parts, bluish-gray; under parts, whitish. Color.— Adl'I-T M.\le; Crown and hindneck, idain bluish-gray, the back, shoulders, rump, and lesser wing-coverts slightly paler and less bluish ; froiil por- tion of forehead and sides of foreliead and rroii';;, black, fonnin;/ a coiisl'icuous U-sliaj^ed marl:: wings, dull slate color with pale gray edgings, these much broader and much paler gray (sometimes wdnitish) on inner wing quills; upper tail-coverts and tail, black. the outermost tail-featliers 'eJy U'hite. with blackish shafts, the white occupying the whole of the exposed portion of both webs on the outermost feather, extending more nearly to base on outer web than on inner, the second feather with terminal half (approxi- mately) white, the third broadly tipped with white; sides of head, pale bluish-gray; a white eye-ring; under parts, white, the throat, chest, and sides, especially the chest, faintly shaded with pale bluish- gray; bill, black: iris, brown. : Similar to the adult male, but gray of upper parts less lihiish. atid without tlie U-shaiied mark on forehead and sides of crown. Nest and Eggs. Nkst : Interior aliout i' .. inches deep and about the same in diameter, perfectly cup- shaped, gracefully contracted at brim; coinposed of soft, silky milkweed or cat-tail down, withered blos- soms, or other dainty material, pinned together with fine grasses, old leaf stems, and horse-hair; exterior decorated with lichens, held on by spider-webs; usually saddled on a horizontal limb, sometimes in a sapling fork, about 15 feet from the ground; in the former situation it resembles a knot on the limb. E
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