1 8 2 WARBLING FL YCA TCHER. 



one inches in extent ; general colour of the plumage above, 

 a bright nut brown or tawny red ; the shafts, black ; exterior 

 edges of the outer row of scapulars, white ; bastard wing, the 

 five first primaries, and three or four of the first greater coverts, 

 also spotted with white ; whole wing-quills, spotted with dusky 

 on their exterior webs ; tail, rounded, transversely barred with 

 dusky and pale brown ; chin, breast, and sides, bright reddish 

 brown, streaked laterally with black, intermixed with white ; 

 belly and vent, white, spotted with bright brown ; legs, covered 

 to the claws with pale brown hairy down ; extremities of the 

 toes and claws, pale bluish, ending in black ; bill, a pale 

 bluish horn colour ; eyes, vivid yellow ; inner angles of the 

 eyes, eyebrows, and space surrounding the bill, whitish ; rest 

 of the face, nut brown ; head, horned or eared, each horn 

 consisting of nine or ten feathers of a tawny red, shafted with 

 black. 



WARBLING FLYCATCHER. (Muscicapa melodia.) 



PLATE XLII.— Fig. 2. 



VIREO GILVUS.—Bonafaute. 



Muscicapa gilva, Vieill. pi. 34. (auct. Bonap.) — Vireo gilvus, Bonap. Synop. p. 70. 

 Nomen. sp. 123. 



This sweet little warbler is for the first time figured and 

 described. In its general appearance it resembles the red- 

 eyed flycatcher ; but, on a close comparison, diners from that 

 bird in many particulars. It arrives in Pennsylvania about 

 the middle of April, and inhabits the thick foliage of orchards 

 and high trees ; its voice is soft, tender, and soothing, and its 

 notes flow in an easy, continued strain, that is extremely 

 pleasing. It is often heard among the weeping willows and 

 Lombardy poplars of this city ; is rarely observed in the 

 woods, but seems particularly attached to the society of man. 

 It gleans among the leaves, occasionally darting after winged 

 insects, and searching for caterpillars ; and seems by its 



