510 AVES—FLYCATCHER. 
THE RED-EYED FLYCATCHER! 
Is the most distinguishable of all the warblers of our forests; it has a 
loud, lively, and energetic song; which it continues sometimes for an hour 
without intermission, as it hunts among the thick foliage. Its notes are in 
short emphatical bars, of two, three, or four syllables. In Jamaica, where 
this bird winters, it is called whip-tom-kelly, from an imagined resemblance 
of its notes to these words. 
This bird builds a neat, pensile nest, between two twigs of a young dog- 
wood, or other young sapling. It is hung by the two upper edges, and formed 
of pieces of hornets’ nests, some flax, fragments of withered leaves, slips of 
pine bark, and bits of paper, all glued together by the saliva of the bird and 
the silk of caterpillars; lined with fibrous bark, grass, and hair. These 
nests are very durable, and selected by the cow-bird as one of the numerous 
receptacles for her egg; the red-eyed flycatcher showing as much solicitude 
for the young foundling as if it were her own. This bird is five inches and 
a half long; the plumage is yellow olive above; the under parts are white; 
the crown is ash, bordered with black. The iris of the eye is red. 
The red-eyed flycatcher is common throughout the United States, and is 
an inhabitant of the city as well as the forest. On a fine summer’s day, 
his lively notes may be heard among the branches of the elms on Boston 
common, 
THE YELL OW-T EH ROAwLE Der hye A iC Ee ie 
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 com- 
pany with the preceding; 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. Its nest is built on a tree, and composed 
o* strips of bark, of grape-vines, moss, lichens, &c., and lined with fibres. 
Winged insects are its principal food. 
This bird is five inches and a half long; the head and back of a nee yellow 
olive; the throat and breast a fine lemon color; the under parts are silky 
white; wings almost black, crossed with two white bars. 


1 Muscicapa olivacea, Lin. 2 Muscicapa sylvicola, WiLson. 
