HED-EYED FLYCATCHER. 
77 
"’hite 
alike. 
on the wings or tail. 
Male and female nearly 
85 . 
r/Si'o OLIVJ.CEVS, BONArARTE. — ISCSCICAPA OLIPACSA, 
WILSON. 
RKD-ETED FLYCATCHER. 
WILSON, PLATE Xtl. FIG. II. 
Tu 
fo th ** ^ nimicroiis species, though confined chiefly 
^® ^oods and forests, and, like all the rest of its 
*triv ^ Pennsylvania, is a bird of passage. It 
geti April ; has a loud, lively, and ener- 
thi ‘L ■'vhich it continues, as it hunts among the 
Jai, • foliage, sometimes for an hour with little inter- 
niiddY”’ months of Majj-, June, and to the 
oth'^^* of July, it is the most distinguishable of all the 
att Y^rblers of the forest ; and even in August, long 
rest have almost all become mute, the notes 
Oj, I red-ejed flycatcher are frequently heard w'ith 
“®tcd spirit. These notes are in short, emphatical 
tkjjj’, . *^'o, three, or four syllables. In Jamaica, where 
(j^ll winters, and is probably also resident, it is 
au Sloane informs us, whip-tom-kelly, from 
. . S'ncd resemblance of its notes to these words, 
tki^ 1 on attentively listening for some time to 
of j **^*^.’0 his full ardour of song, it requires but little 
t))e|.*’'‘‘8'“'‘tion to fancy that you hear it jironounce 
'^‘sli* “ tom kelly, whip-tom-kelly!” very 
ha-u***^ inhabits from Georgia to the river St 
leaving Pennsylvania about the middle of 
^’I'd builds, in the month of May, a small, neat, 
a eooerally suspended between two twigs of 
ly dogwood or other small sapling. It is hung 
than upper edges, seldom at a greater height 
of feet from the ground. It is formed 
Wifk hornets’ nests, some flax, fragments of 
^ted leaves, slips of vine bark, bits of paper, ail 
