226 FLYCATCHER. 



under a shed, or eaves, composed of mud, mixed with moss ; it is 

 large and solid, and lined with flax or horse hair; the eggs five in 

 number, pure white, with two or three dots of red at the large end ; 

 is said to have two, or even three broods in a year ; appears at New 

 York the latter end of March, but retires before September; called 

 there Phoebe Bird, or Bee-eater, as among other insects it is fond 

 of bees. 



119.— QUERULOUS FLYCATCHER. 



Muscicapa querula, Vieill. Am. i. p. 6S. pi. 39. 

 Wood Flycatcher, Share's Zool. x. 37S. 



LENGTH five inches and one-third. Bill bent at the tip, 

 brown, the under part yellow; plumage above grey, beneath white; 

 wing coverts tipped with dirty white; legs dusky. 



Inhabits America ; comes into the United States in April, and 

 departs in September; called there the Smaller Peewee; has a plain- 

 tive cry, chiefly at the time of perching ; builds in trees, and lays 

 four dull white eggs, spotted with brown ; is not difficult of approach, 

 especially when intent on seizing its prey, which is insects. It 

 appears to be allied to the Black-capped Species, though the short 

 description given does not amount to a certainty of the fact. 



120— RED-EYED FLYCATCHER. 



Muscicapa olivacea, Ind. Orn. ii. 482. Lin.'i. 327. Gm. Lin. i. 938. Vieill. Am. i. p. 



71. Amer. Orn. ii. pi. 12. f. 3. 

 Muscicapa oculis rubris, Klein, 74. 6. 



— - Jamaicensis, Bris.n. 410. Id. Svo. i. 271. 

 Gobe-mouche de la Caroline, et de la Jatnaique, Buf. iv. 539. 

 Olive-coloured Flycatcher, Edw. p. 253. 

 Red-eyed Flycatcher, Gen. Syn. iii. 351. Arct. Zool. ii. 271. Cates. Car. i. pi. 54. 



Brown, Jam. 456. Bartr. Tr. 288. Shaw's Zool. x. p. 379. 



LENGTH five inches and a half. Bill lead-colour; pale at the 

 base beneath, and beset with bristles, point hooked ; irides red ; 



