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plumage above greenish olive-brown ; through the eyes a brownish 

 streak; and above them a whitish one; the under parts greenish 

 white ; quills and tail deep olive, edged with white ; under tail 

 coverts, and beneath the wings, yellowish white ; legs brown. 



The female is like the male, but the colours more dull. 



Inhabits Carolina in summer, and breeds there ; common in the 

 woods about Georgia, especially swamps, and where oaks grow; 

 comes in the middle of March ; sings early in spring and summer, 

 with a loud variable note, not unlike that of a Thrush, and is known 

 there by the name of Hooked-billed Grey-pate ; builds frequently 

 in trees having a thick foliage, hanging over the water, from which 

 it darts on flies and other passing insects. The nest is formed the 

 beginning of May, of dried stalks outwardly, lined with hay ; the 

 egg reddish white, with small rufous specks, most numerous, and 

 nearly confluent, at the larger end. It is also called by some the 

 Black, striped-headed, Olive-back. Is seen in the winter months 

 at Jamaica, where it is known by the name of Whip Tom Kelly. 

 Said to be one of the adopted nurses of the Cowpen Oriole;* and 

 according to the Amer. Orn. makes a pensile nest, between two 

 twigs of dogwood, or other small sapling, four or five feet from the 

 ground. 



A. — Muscicapa Canadensis olivacea, Bris.'ri. 408. Id. 8vo. i. 271. 



This differs in wanting the pale streak over the eyes ; but has two 

 pale bands across the wings; under parts yellowish white. 



Inhabits Canada. — I received one, shot at Albany Fort, the 4th 

 of June. I have also seen a bird from India, very little differing ; 

 it was brown above, whitish beneath ; through the eye a blackish 

 line, and over it a white one ; between the bill and eye pale. In this 

 the irides were not red, but pale reddish brown ; but this difference 

 was remarked in a drawing of one from Georgia, in which the irides 

 were also brown. 



* See Vol. iii. p. 100. 

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