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246 246 THE BLUE-GREY FLYCATCHER. Blue-grey Flycatcher, Muscicapa carulea, Wils. Amer. Orn., vol. ii. p. 164. Sylvia cosrulea, Bonap. Syn. p. 85. Blue-grey Sylvan Flycatcher, Muscicapa cairuka, Nutt. Man., vol. i. p. 297. Blue-grey Flycatcher, Muscicapa cceruka, Aud. Orn. Biog., vol. i. p. 431. Upper parts bright blue, deeper on the head, paler on the tail-coverts; a narrow black band on the forehead, extending over the eyes; wings brown- ish-black, margined with blue, some of the secondaries with bluish-white; tail glossy black, the outer feather on each side nearly all white, the next with its terminal half, and the third with its tip of that colour; lower parts greyish-white. Female similar, but with the tints duller, and the black band on the head wanting. Male, 41 6j. From Texas northward. Abundant. Migratory. The Black Walnut. Juglans nigra, TVtlld., Sp. PL, vol. iv. p. 456. Pursh, Flor. Amer., vol. ii. p. 636. Mich. Arbr. Forest, de l'Amer. Sept., vol. i. p. 157, pi. 1. — Moncecia Polyandria, Linn. — Tere- BINTHACEiE, JuSS. This species belongs to the division with simple, polyandrous male catkins, and is distinguished by its numerous ovato-lanceolate, subcordate, serrated leaflets, narrowed towards the end, somewhat downy beneath, as are the pe- tioles; its globular scabrous fruits, and wrinkled nuts. The leaves have seven or eight nearly opposite pairs of leaflets. The male catkins are pendent. The fruits are sometimes from six to eight inches in circumference, the ker- nel brown and corrugated, and, although eaten, inferior to the common wal- nut. The bark of the trunk is thick, blackish, and cracked; the wood of a very dark colour. END OF THE FIRST VOLUME.