SPECIES 10. MUSCICAPJi CANTATRIX. 
WHITE-EYED FLYCATCHER. 
[Plate XVHI.— Fig. 6.] 
Muscicapa noveboracensis, Gmei,. Syst. i, p. 947 . — Hanging Fly- 
catcher, Lath, Syn- Supp.p. 174. — Jlrct. Zool.p. 589,JV‘o. 274. 
— Muscicapa cantatrix, the little Domestic Flycatcher, or Green 
Wren, Bartram, p. 290. — Peale’s Museum, JVo, 6778.* 
This is another of the Cow-bird’s adopted nurses; a lively, 
active, and sociable little bird, possessing a strong voice for its 
size, and a great variety of notes; and singing with little inter- 
mission, from its first arrival about the middle of April to a 
little before its departure in September. On the twenty-seventh 
of February I heard this bird in the southern parts of the state 
of Georgia, in considerable numbers, singing with great vivacity. 
They had only arrived a few days before. Its arrival in Penn- 
sylvania, after an interval of seven weeks, is a proof that our 
birds of passage, particularly the smaller species, do not migrate 
at once from south to north; but progress daily, keeping compa- 
ny, as it were, with the advances of spring. It has been observed 
in the neighbourhood of Savannah, so late as the middle of No- 
vember; and probably winters in Mexico, and the West Indies. 
This bird builds a very neat little nest, often in the figure of 
an inverted cone; it is suspended by the upper edge of the two 
sides, on the circular bend of a prickly vine, a species of Smilax 
that generally grows in low thickets. Outwardly it is constructed 
of various light materials, bits of rotten wood, fibres of dry 
stalks, of weeds, pieces of paper, commonly newspapers, an 
article almost always found about its nest, so that some of my 
friends have given it the name of the Politician; all these sub- 
* Fireo musicus, Vieillot, Ois. de Sept. pi. 52. 
