200 WHITE-EYED FLYC ATCHER. 
overhanging at the tip, notched, broad, and furnished with bristles at 
the base; the color of the plumage above is a light bluish gray, 
bluest on the head, below bluish white ; tail, longer ‘than the body, a 
little rounded, and black, except the exterior feathers, which are al- 
most all white, and the next two also tipped with white ; tail-coverts, 
black; wings, brownish black, some of the secondaries next the body 
edged with white ; legs, extremely slender, about three fourths of an 
th long, and of a bluish black color. The female is distinguished 
by wanting the black line round the front. ae : 
The food of this bird is small winged insects, and their larve, but 
particularly: the former, which it seems almost always in pursuit of: 
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WHITE-EYED FLYCATCHER.—MUSCICAPA CANTATRIX.— 
Fig. 88. , 
Muscicapa Noveboracensis, Gmel. Syst. i. p. 947. — Hai ing Flycatcher, Lath. 
Syn. Supp. p. 174. — Arct. Zool. p- 389, No. 274.— Muscicapa cantatrix, the 
Lite Domestic Flycatcher, or Green Wren, Bartram, p. 290.— Peale’s Mu- 
seum, No. 6778. 
VIREO NOVEBORACENSIS. — Bonaparte. 
Vireo Noveboracensis, Bonap. Synop. p.70.— The White-Eyed Flycatcher, or 
Vireo, Aud. pl. 63, male ; Orn. Biog. i. p. 328. 
Turs is another of the Cow Bird’s adopted nurses ; a lively, active, 
and sociable little bird, possessing a strong voice for its size, and a 
eat variety of notes; and singing with little intermission, from its 
first arrival, about the middle of April, till.a little before its departure 
in September. On the 27th of February, I heard this bird in the 
southern parts of the state of Georgia, in considerable numbers, sing- 
ing with great vivacity. ‘They had only arrived a few days before. 
Its arrival in Pennsylvania, a an interval of seven weeks, is a proof 
that our birds of passage, particularly the smaller species, do not mi- 
grate at once from south to north; but progress daily, keeping com- | 
pany, as it were, with the advances of spring. It has been observed 
in the neighborhood of Savannah so late as the middle of Novem- 
ber; and probably winters in Mexico and the West Indies. 
This bird builds a very neat little nest, often in the figure of an in- 
verted cone; it is suspended, by the upper edge of the two sides, on 
the circular bend of a prickly vine, — a species of smilax that gener- 
ally grows in low thickets. Outwardly, it is constructed, of va- 
rious light materials, bits of rotten wood, fibres of dry stalks of weeds, 
pieces of paper, commonly newspapers, an article almost always found 
about its nest, so that some of my friends have given it the name of 
the Politician; all these substances are interwoven with the silk of 
caterpillars, and the inside is lined with fine, dry grass and hair. The 
female lays five eggs, pure white, marked near the great end with a 
very few small dots of deep black or purple. They generally raise 
two broods in a season. They seem particularly attached to thickets 
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