228 FLYCATCHER. 



121.— WARBLING FLYCATCHER. 



Muscicapa melodia, Warbling Flycatcher, Am. Orn.v. p. 85. pi. 42. f. 2. Shaw's 

 Zool. x. 382. 



THIS is five inches and a half long, and eight inches and a half 

 in extent. Bill dull lead-colour above, and notched near the point, 

 beneath pale flesh-colour; the irides dark hazel; sides of the head, 

 including the eye, and all the under parts white, with a pale greenish 

 yellow tinge near the breast; upper parts pale green olive, inclining 

 a little to ash on the head ; wings brown, broadly edged with pale 

 olive green ; tail slightly forked, edged with olive; legs pale lead- 

 colour. Male and female nearly alike. 



Inhabits North America ; it arrives in Pennsylvania about the 

 middle of April, and departs late, having been heard in October; 

 it inhabits the thick foliage of orchards and high trees ; the voice 

 is soft, tender, and soothing ; often heard among the weeping 

 willows, and Lombardy poplars, rarely in the woods : gleans among 

 the leaves, occasionally darting after winged insects, and searching 

 for caterpillars ; its general appearance resembles the Red-eyed Fly- 

 catcher, but on close inspection, differs in many particulars : it has 

 no white on the wings, and, in the figure given, there is no appear- 

 ance of hairs at the bill ; the irides also differ in colour. 



122.— CHATTERING FLYCATCHER. 



Muscicapa viridis, Ind. Orn. ii. 482. Gm. Lin. i. 936. 

 Icteria dumicola, Vieill. Am. i. p. 85. pi. 55 ? 

 Merula viridis Carolinensis, Bris. ii. 315. Id. 870. i. 245. 

 Pipra pol)-glotta, Yellow-breasted Chat, Am. Orn. i. pi. 6. f. 2. 

 Turdus pectore luteo, Klein, 69. 26. 



