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more cinereous than the other, and it has a single light streak 
over the eye. The notes of this bird are low, somewhat 
plaintive, but warbled out with great sweetness ; and form a 
striking contrast with those of the Red-eyed Flycatcher. I 
think it probable that Dr Barton had reference to this bird 
when he made the following remarks, (see his Fragments of 
the Natural History of Pennsylvania, page 19) : — 44 Musci- 
capa olivacea . — I do not think with Mr Pennant that this is 
the same bird as the Whip-tom-kelly of the West Indies. 
Our bird has no such note ; but a great variety of soft, tender, 
and agreeable notes. It inhabits forests ; and does not, like 
the West India bird, build a pendulous nest.” Had the 
learned professor, however, examined into this matter with 
his usual accuracy, he would have found, that the Muscicapa 
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 distinguishable only by the greater obscurity 
of the colours. 
