RED-EYED FLYCATCHER. 
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Had the learned Professer, however, examined into this mat- 
ter with his usual accuracy, he would have found, that the Mus- 
cicapa olivacea, and the soft and tender songster he mentions, 
are two very distinct species; and that both the one and the other 
actually build very curious pendulous nests. 
This species is five inches and a half long, and seven inches 
in extent; crown ash, slightly tinged with olive, bordered on 
each side with a line of black, below which is a line of white 
passing from the nostril over and a little beyond the eye; the 
bill is longer than usual with birds of its tribe, the upper 
mandible overhanging the lower considerably and notched, 
dusky above, and light blue below ; all the rest of the plumage 
above is of a yellow olive, relieved on the tail and at the tips of 
the wings with brown; chin, throat, breast and belly pure white; 
inside of the wings and vent feathers greenish yellow; the tail is 
very slightly forked; legs and feet light blue; iris of the eye red. 
The female is marked nearly in the same manner, and is dis- 
tinguishable only by the greater obscurity of the colours. 
