SPECIES S. MUSCICAPJi SYLVICOLJi.^ 
YELLOW-THROATED FLYCATCHER. 
[Plate VH. — Fig. 3.] 
Peale’s Museum, Wo. 6827. 
This summer species is found chiefly in the woods, hunting 
among the high branches; and has an indolent and plaintive note, 
which it repeats, with some little variation, every ten or twelve 
seconds, like preeo — preea, &c. It is often heard in company 
with the Red-eyed Flycatcher {Muscicapa olivacea), or Whip- 
Tom-Kelly of Jamaica; the loud energetic notes of the latter, 
mingling with the soft languid warble of the former, producing 
an agreeable effect, particularly during the burning heat of noon, 
when almost every other songster but these two is silent. 
Those who loiter through the shades of our magnificent forests 
at that hour, will easily recognize both species. It arrives from 
the south early in May, and returns again with its young about 
the middle of September. Its nest, which is sometimes fixed on 
the upper side of a limb, sometimes on a horizontal branch among 
the twigs, generally on a tree, is composed outwardly of thin 
strips of the bark of grape-vines, moss, lichens, &c., and lined 
with fine fibres of such like substances; the eggs, usually four, 
are white, thinly dotted with black, chiefly near the great end. 
Winged insects are its principal food. 
Whether this species has been described before or not I must 
leave to the sagacity of the reader, who has the opportunity of 
examining European works of this kind, to discover.! I have 
met with no description in Pennant, Buffbn, or Latham, that 
will properly apply to this bird, which may perhaps be owing 
* Vireo Jiavifrons, Ois. de VJim. Sept. Vif.hlot, pi. 54. 
! See “ Orange-throated Warbler.” Lath. Syn. it, 481, 103. 
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