WARBLING FLYCATCHER. Igl 
This species is found generally over the United States, and 
is not migratory. 
The Red Owl is eight inches and a half long, and twenty- 
one inches in extent ; general colour of the plumage above, 
a bright nut brown, or tawny red ; the shafts, black ; exterior 
edges of the outer row of scapulars, white ; bastard wing, the 
five first primaries, and three or four of the first greater coverts, 
also spotted with white; whole wing-quills, spotted with 
dusky on their exterior webs ; tail, rounded, transversely 
barred with dusky and pale brown ; chin, breast, and sides, 
bright reddish brown, streaked laterally with black, inter- 
mixed with white ; belly and vent, white, spotted with 
bright brown ; legs, covered to the claws with pale brown 
hairy down ; extremities of the toes and claws, pale bluish, 
ending in black ; bill, a pale bluish horn colour ; eyes, vivid 
yellow ; inner angles of the eyes, eyebrows, and space 
surrounding the bill, whitish ; rest of the face, nut brown ; 
head, horned or eared, each horn consisting of nine or ten 
feathers of a tawny red, shafted with black. 
WARBLING FLYCATCHER. — MUSCICAPA MELODIA. 
Plate XLII. Fig. 2. 
VIREO GIL VUS. — Bonaparte. 
Muscicapa gilva, Vieill. pi. 34. (auct. Nonap . ) — Vireo gilvus, JBonap. Synop. p. 70. 
Nomen. sp. 123. 
This sweet little Warbler is for the first time figured and 
described. In its general appearance it resembles the Red-eyed 
Flycatcher ; but, on a close comparison, differs from that bird in 
many particulars. It arrives in Pennsylvania about the middle 
of April, and inhabits the thick foliage of orchards and high 
trees; its voice is soft, tender, and soothing, and its notes 
flow in an easy, continued strain, that is extremely pleasing. 
It is often heard among the weeping willows and Lombardy 
poplars of this city ; is rarely observed in the woods ; but 
