. Ornithology and oölogy of New England [microform] : containing full descriptions of the birds of New England and adjoining states and provinces, arranged by a long-approved classification and nomenclature : together with a complete history of their habits, times of arrival and departure ... : with illustrations of many species of the birds and accurate figures of their eggs. Ornithology; Birds; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux; Oiseaux. THE GREAT-CRESTED FLYCATCHER. 131 interests of agriculture are greater tliau those of a hive of bees. About the middle of September, this bird with his fiimily a
. Ornithology and oölogy of New England [microform] : containing full descriptions of the birds of New England and adjoining states and provinces, arranged by a long-approved classification and nomenclature : together with a complete history of their habits, times of arrival and departure ... : with illustrations of many species of the birds and accurate figures of their eggs. Ornithology; Birds; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux; Oiseaux. THE GREAT-CRESTED FLYCATCHER. 131 interests of agriculture are greater tliau those of a hive of bees. About the middle of September, this bird with his fiimily and neighbors gather into a scattered flock, and depart for the south, spending the winter in Central America and Soutliern Mexico. MYIARCHUS, Caiiasis. Mllinrchm, Carams, l''nuna roruana (1844-4G) 152. Burmeister, Thiero Bra- Bilifiis, U. Vi«cl (1^50) 4()". Tur-us eiiiial U>, (ir not li)iij,'cr than, the micMle toe, which is deciilfdly longer than tiie oiif; liili wiihT at l)asc than halt'the euhnen; tail hroad, Ions,', even, or sli^Mitly roiiiidcd, alumt e(iual to tin; \vinf,'s, which scarcely reach the middle of the tail, the first i)riniary shorter than the sixili; head with elongated lanceolate distinct feathers; above hrownish-olive; throat ash; belly yellow; tail and wing feathers varied with rufo\is. MYIARCHUS CRINITUS. — Cibanis. The Great-crested Flycatcher. Mmckapa a-ii,!ta, Linnivus. Syst. Xat., I. (ITOG) 325. Wilson, Am. Orn., II. (1810) 75. And. Orn. Biog., II. (1834) 176; V. 423. Tyrannus crinitm. Nutt. Man., I. (2d ed., 1840) 302. Description. Head with a depressed crest; third ([nill longest, fourth and second successively but little shorter, lirst a little longer than seventh, much shorter than sixth; tail decidedly rounded or even gradnaled, the lateral feather about twenty-five one- hundredths of an inch shorter; uppi^i" P"'"'^ 'l>'" ;, with the feathers of the crown, and to some extent of the bac
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