distinct 
WHITE-EYED FLYCATCHER. 
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species; and that both the one and the other 
j cLIlU llinu UOl/Ll Lllc vXltv dilX 
rj, }*y build very curious pendulous nests. 
•Dch ?P®cies is five inches and a half long-, and seven 
oljy®® in extent; crown, ash, slightly tinged with 
lyjij ’ “Ordered on each side w'ith a hue of black, below 
Sad ^*0“ o^ white passing from the nostril over 
li 5 u ? little beyond the eye ; the bill is longer than 
llano- ''^*'** liirds of its tribe, the upper mandible over- 
the lower considerably, and notched, dusky 
al,o ^’.iiiid light blue below ; all the rest of the plumage 
the c *** “1^ ®' yollow olive, relieved on the tail and at 
*0(1 r** "'iiigs with broivn ; cbiu, throat, breast, 
fe^ji “illy, pure white ; inside of the wings and vent 
&i'ooni*'i yellow; the tail is very slightly 
^he f ’ linlil- lilii® > ii'i® “1^ H'® oy®> roil- 
is *®inale is marked nearly in the same manner, and 
Col, *^®Snishable only by the greater obscurity of the 
• ^IRBO ttOVESOliACENSTSf BONAPAHTE. — MVSCICAPA 
CANTATRIX, WILSON. 
■WHITE-EYED FLYCATCHER. 
WILSON, PLATE XYIII. FIG. VI. 
liygj is another of the cow bird’s adopted nurses ; a 
active, and sociable little bird, possessing a 
and ^“ice for its size, aud a great variety of notes ; 
arrly**?8'ing, with little intermission, from its first 
dojj ^1> about the middle of April, to a little before its 
1 in September. On the 27th of Febniary, 
dooy, . 11*1*' bird in the southern parts of the State of 
-fly ?***> in considerable numbers, singing with great 
Its .^I'ly l’**‘l “*'ly “irrived a few d.ays before. 
\Vgg, *^’^al ill Pciinsylvauia, after an interval of seven 
thg a proof that our birds of passage, particularly 
to no species, do not migrate at once ti-orn soutli 
it proiiress daily, keeping company, as 
ehsp.^*’ with the advances of spring. It has been 
'"id in the neighbourhood of Savannah so late as 
