WHITE-EYED VIREO, OR FLYCATCHER. 30? 
bushes when whistled too, and peeping cautiously, came 
down close to me, looking about with complacent curios- 
ity, as if unconscious of any danger. In the last week of 
February, Wilson already heard them singing in the 
southern parts of Georgia, and throughout that month to 
March, I saw them in the swampy thickets nearly every 
day, so that they undoubtedly reside and pass the winter 
in the maritime parts of the Southern States. The arri- 
val of this little unsuspicious warbler in Pennsylvania 
and New England is usually about the middle of April 
or earlier. On the 12th of March I first heard his voice 
in the low thickets of West Florida. His ditty was now 
simply — ss’t (with a whistle) wa ivitte witte we-wa , (the 
1st part very quick.) As late as the first week in May, 
I observed a few stragglers in this vicinity peeping 
through the bushes ; and in the latter end of the month 
a pair had taken up their abode in the thickets of Fresh 
Pond, so that those which first arrive leave us and pro- 
ceed further to the north. On the 22d of June I heard 
the male in full song, near his nest, in our neighbourhood, 
where incubation was going on. His warble was very 
pleasing, though somewhat monotonous and whimsical. 
This affectionate note, often repeated, near to his faithful 
mate while confined to her nest, was like ’ t shipp ewee-wa- 
say 3 t shipp ewee-wee-w as-say , sweetly whistled, and with 
a greater compass of voice and loudness, than might 
have been expected from the size of the little vocalist. 
The song is sometimes changed two or three times in the 
course of twenty minutes ; and I have heard the following 
phrases ; 5 att tshippewat 3 ivurr , tshippewat 3 wurr ; at an- 
other time, ’tshipeway 3 tshe 6 et 3 tsherr . On another visit 
the little performer had changed his song to \ pip te 
waigh a tsheiva , with a guttural trill, as usual, at the last 
syllable. He soon however varied his lay to ’whip te wol wee , 
