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WHITE-EYED FLYCATCHER. 
WHITE-EYED FLYCATCHER MUSCICAPA CANTATRIX. 
Plate XVIII. Fig. 6. 
Muscicapa Noveboracensis, Gmel. Syst. i. p. 947. — Hanging Flycatcher, Lath. Syn. 
Supp. p. 174. — Arct. Zool. p. 389, No. 274. — Muscicapa cantatrix, the Little 
Domestic Flycatcher, or Green Wren, Lartram, p. 290. — Peak's Museum , No. 
6778. 
VIREO NO VEBORA CENSIS. — B onaparte. 
Yireo Noveboracensis, JBonap. Synop. p. 70. — The White-Eyed Flycatcher, or Vireo, 
Aud. pi. 63, male ; Orn. JBiog. i. p. 328. 
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 
intermission, from its first arrival, about the middle of April, 
till a little before its departure in September. On the 27th 
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 Pennsylvania, 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 company, as it were, with the advances 
of spring. It has been observed in the neighbourhood of 
Savannah so late as the middle of November ; 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 substances are interwoven with the silk of 
