290 RED-EYED VIREO. 



and builds a pensile nest. You will see its figure in my fourth volume of 

 Illustrations, when I hope to be able to give you a good account of its 

 habits. 



ViREO OLivACEUs, Ch. Bonaparte, Synops. of Birds of the United States, p. 71- 

 Red-eyed Flycatcher, Muscicapa olivacea, Wih. Amer. Ornith. vol. ii. p. 55. 

 pL 12, fig. 3 Nuttall, Manual, p. 312. 



Adult Male. Plate CL. 



Bill of moderate length, strong, depressed at the base, compressed to- 

 wards the end, somewhat ascending. Upper mandible with the dorsal 

 line slightly convex, the sides convex, the edges sharp and notched to- 

 wards the end, the tip acute and suddenly deflected; lower mandible 

 with the dorsal line also slightly convex, the back rounded, the edges 

 sharp and inflected, the tip acute. Nostrils basal, lateral, oblong. Head 

 rather large, neck short, body rather robust. Feet of ordinary length ; 

 tarsus compressed, anteriorly scutellate, sharp behind ; toes slender, free ; 

 claws arched, compressed, acute. 



Plumage soft and blended. Wings rather long, the second and third 

 primaries longest ; tail of ordinary length, slightly emarginate. Bristles 

 at the base of the bill short. 



Bill brown above^ pale bluish-grey beneath. Iris red. Feet bluish- 

 grey. The general colour of the plumage above is light yellowish-olive, 

 the crown of the head deep-grey, bordered on each side by a line of 

 blackish^ below which is a line of greyish-white passing from the nostril 

 over the eye. Quills dusky, olivaceous on the outer margin, white on the 

 inner. Tail wood-brown. The lower parts are white, the breast and 

 sides tinged with pale yellow. 



Length 5\ inches, extent of wings 9 ; bill along the back nearly ^, 

 along the edge j*^ ; tarsus ■^^. 



The Female resembles the Male, but is of a duller white beneath. 



Honey-Locust. 



Gleditschia triacanthos, Willd. Sp. PI. vol. iv. p. \09T.^Pursh. Fl. Amer. Sept. 



voL i. p. 221 — PoLYGAMiA DifficiA, Linn. LEGUMiNOSiE, Jms. 

 See Vol. I. p. 226. 



