SPECIES 12. MUSCICJiPJi OLIVACEA. 
RED-EYED FLYCATCHER. 
[Plate XII. — Fig. 2.] , 
Linn. Syst. i,p. 327, 14. — Gobe-mouche de la Caroline et de la ,Ja- 
maique, Buff, iv, p. 539. Edw. t. 253. — Catesb. t. 54. — Lath. 
Syn. Ill, p. 351, JV*o. 52. — Muscicapa sylvicola, Bartram, p. 
290. — Peale’s Museum, jyTo. 6675.* 
This is a numerous species, though confined chiefly to the 
woods and forests, and, like all the rest of its tribe that visit 
Pennsylvania, is a bird of passage. It arrives here late in April ; 
has a loud, lively and energetic song, which it continues, as it 
hunts among the thick foliage, sometimes for an hour with little 
intermission. In the months of May, June, and to the middle 
of July, it is the most distinguishable of all the other warblers 
of the forest; and even in August, long after the rest have al- 
most all become mute, the notes of the Red-eyed Flycatcher 
are frequently heard with unabated spirit. These notes are in 
short, emphatical bars, of two, three, or four syllables. In Ja- 
maica, where this bird winters, and is probably also resident, 
it is called, as Sloan informs us, “Whip-Tom Kelly,” from an 
imagined resemblance of its notes to these words. And indeed, 
on attentively listening for sometime to this bird in his full ar- 
dour of song, it requires but little of imagination to fancy that 
you hear it pronounce these words, “Tom Kelly! Whip-Tom 
Kelly!” very distinctly. It inhabits from Georgia to the river 
St. Lawrence, leaving Pennsylvania about the middle of Sep- 
tember. 
This bird builds in the month of May a small neat pensile 
nest, generally suspended between two twigs of a young dog- 
*Mitscicapa alliloqua, Vieill. Ois. de I’Jlm. Sepl. pi. 38. 
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