RED-EYED FLYCATCHER. 77 
white on the wing's or tail. Male and female nearly 
alike. 
85 . V1RKO OLIVACEUS, BONAPARTE . — MUSCICAPA OL1VACEA, 
WILSON. 
RED-EYED FLYCATCHER. 
WILSON, PLATE XU. FIG. II. 
This is a numerous species, though confined chiefly 
to the w r oods and forests, and, like all the rest of its 
tribe that visit Pennsylvania, is a bird of passage. It 
arrives here late in April ; has a loud, lively, and ener- 
getic song, which it continues, as it hunts among the 
thick foliage, sometimes for an hour with little inter- 
mission. In the months of May, June, and to the 
middle of July, it is the most distinguishable of all the 
other warblers of the forest ; and even in August, long 
after the rest have almost all become mute, the notes 
of the red-eyed flycatcher are frequently heard with 
unabated spirit. These notes are in short, emphatical 
bars, of two, three, or four syllables. In Jamaica, where 
this bird winters, and is probably also resident, it is 
called, as Sloan e informs us, whip-tom-kelly, from 
an imagined resemblance of its notes to these words. 
And, indeed, on attentively listening for some time to 
this bird in his full ardour of song, it requires but little 
of imagination to fancy that you hear it pronounce 
these words, “ tom kelly, whip-tom-kelly ! ” very 
distinctly. It inhabits from Georgia to the river St 
Lawrence, leaving Pennsylvania about the middle of 
September. 
This bird builds, in the month of May, a small, neat, 
pensile nest, generally suspended between two twigs of 
a young dogwood or other small sapling. It is hung 
by the two upper edges, seldom at a greater height 
than four or five feet from the ground. It is formed 
of pieces of hornets’ nests, some flax, fragments of 
withered leaves, slips of vine bark, bits of paper, all 
