SPECIES S. MUSCICrfPA SYLVICOLA.* 

 YELLOW-THROATED FLYCATCHER. 



[Plate VIL Fig. 3.] 

 PEALE'S Museum, JVb, 6827. 



THIS summer species is found chiefly in the woods, hunting 

 among the high branches; and has an indolent and plaintive note, 

 which it repeats, with some little variation, every ten or twelve 

 seconds, like preeo preea, &c. It is often heard in company 

 with the Red-eyed Flycatcher (Muscicapa olivacea), or Whip- 

 Tom-Kelly of Jamaica; the loud energetic notes of the latter, 

 mingling with the soft languid warble of the former, producing 

 an agreeable effect, particularly during the burning heat of noon, 

 when almost every other songster but these two is silent. 

 Those who loiter through the shades of our magnificent forests 

 at that hour, will easily recognize both species. It arrives from 

 the south early in May, and returns again with its young about 

 the middle of September. Its nest, which is sometimes fixed on 

 the upper side of a limb, sometimes on a horizontal branch among 

 the twigs, generally on a tree, is composed outwardly of thin 

 strips of the bark of grape-vines, moss, lichens, &c., and lined 

 with fine fibres of such like substances; the eggs, usually four, 

 are white, thinly dotted with black, chiefly near the great end. 

 Winged insects are its principal food. 



Whether this species has been described before or not I must 

 leave to the sagacity of the reader, who has the opportunity of 

 examining European works of this kind, to discover, t I have 

 met with no description in Pennant, Buffon, or Latham, that 

 will properly apply to this bird, which may perhaps be owing 



* Vino flavifrons, Ois. de I 1 Jim. Sept. VIEILLOT, pi. 54. 

 f See Orange-throated Warbler." LATH. Syn. n, 481, 103. 

 VOL. II. 



