RED-E YED EL YCA TCHER. 



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female until the early part of the succeeding spring; the 

 plumage of the female undergoes no material change of 

 colour. 



RED-EYED FLYCATCHER. {Muscicapa olivacea.) 



PLATE XII.— Fig. 3. 



Linn. Syst. i. p. 327, 14. — Gobe-mouche de la Caroline et de la Jamaique, Buff. 

 iv. p. 539. Edw. t. 253.— Catesb. t. 54. Lath. Syn. iii. p. 351, No. 52.— 

 Muscicapa sylvicola, Bartram, p. 290. — Peale's Museum, No. 6675. 



VIREO OLIVACEUS.— Bonapatite. 



Vireo olivaceus, Bonap. Synop. p. 71. — Vireo olivaceus, Ked-eyed Greenlet, 

 North. Zool. ii. p. 233. 



This is a numerous species, though confined chiefly to the 

 woods and forests, and, like all the rest of its trihe that visit 

 Pennsylvania, is a bird of passage. It arrives here late in 

 April ; has a loud, lively, and energetic song, which it con- 

 tinues, as it hunts among the thick foliage, sometimes for an 

 hour with little intermission. In the months of May, June, 

 and to the middle of July, it is the most distinguishable of all 

 the other warblers of the forest; and even in August, long 

 after the rest have almost all become mute, the notes of the 

 red-eyed flycatcher are frequently heard with unabated spirit. 

 These notes are in short, emphatical bars, of two, three, or 

 four syllables. In Jamaica, where this bird winters, and is 

 probably also resident, it is called, as Sloane informs us, 

 whip-tom-kelly, from an imagined resemblance of its notes 

 to these words. And, indeed, on attentively listening for 

 some time to this bird in his full ardour of song, it requires 

 but little of imagination to fancy that you hear it pronounce 

 these words, " Tom-kelly, whip-tom-kelly ! " very distinctly. 

 It inhabits from Georgia to the river St Lawrence, leaving 

 Pennsylvania about the middle of September. 



This bird builds, in the month of May, a small, neat, pensile 

 nest, generally suspended between two twigs of a young dog- 

 wood or other small sapling. It is hung by the two upper 



