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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 over- 
hanging 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. 
86. FIREO NOVEBORACENSIS, BONAPARTE. MUSCICAPA 
CANTATRIX, WILSON. 
WHITE-EYED FLYCATCHER. 
WILSON, PLATE XVIII. FIG. VI. 
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, to 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 
