MUSTACnOE FLYCATCHER. 



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This bird abounds in most parts of North Ame- 

 rica during the summer months : it arrives in 

 Pensylvania in May, and departs to the south in 

 August : its favourite residence is in close hazel 

 or bramble thickets, or underwood, where it takes 

 unbounded possession, and will not let any person 

 approach without assaulting him with a variety of 

 strange and uncouth notes, it having the faculty 

 of mimicing almost any noise that it hears, and 

 which it will repeat during the whole night if the 

 weather be fine. About the middle of May these 

 birds begin to build their nests in a bramble or 

 thick shrub, about four feet from the ground ; it 

 is composed of dry leaves with layers of grape 

 vine bark, and lined with fibrous roots and dry 

 grass: the female lays four flesh-coloured eggs, 

 sprinkled with brown and dull red spots : the 

 young are hatched in twelve days, and are able to 

 fly by the second week in June : the male is par- 

 ticularly noisy during the time the female is sitting: 

 their food consists of large coleopterous insects 

 and whortle berries. 



MUSTACHOE FLYCATCHER. 



(Muscicapa mystacea.) 



Mu. virens subtus flam, tcenia a rictu oris sub oculis nigra* 

 Green Flycatcher, beneath yellow, with a stripe from the gape 



to the eyes black. 

 Muscicapa mystacea. Lath. Ind, Orn, Sup. li. 8. 

 Mustachoe Flycatcher. Jjath. Si/n. Sup» IL 221. 19. 



