All three had the plumage of the female, but one was manifestly darker than the others: if this was, as I presume, a cock, the conclusion above, that the young male bears the livery of the female, is confirmed. As I did not want the young, I placed them on a lower limb of a large tree in the yard; and as, on the next day, I saw two of them about the tree lively and active, and as one flew a distance of, perhaps, thirty feet, I trust that they did well, and survived their premature exposure to the world. To return to the nest, however: I found it a loose, oblong mass, flattened on two sides, measuring in height about two and a half feet, (though the ends hung down to the length of four feet,) in width more than two feet, and in thickness about one foot. It was composed almost entirely of the stems and tendrils of passion flowers, mixed, however, and that all through the structure, with bright-yellow, silky spiders’ nests, and the downy filaments of some cottony herbs. The cavity was not larger than a man’s two fists, and was not, in any measure, lined: it descended within the entrance, though the latter faced the ground. WHITE-EYED FLYCATCHER.[54] _Sewy-sewy._ _Vireo Noveboracensis._ _Musicapa Noveboracensis_, +Gm.+—Aud. pl. 63. _Musicapa cantatrix_, +Wils.+ _Vireo Noveboracensis_, +Bonap.+ [54] Length 4¹⁄₂ inches, expanse 6⁵⁄₈, flexure 2⁸⁄₁₀, tail 2, rictus ⁵⁄₁₀, tarsus ⁶⁄₁₀, middle toe ⁶⁄₁₀. Intestine 4 inches, two minute, rudimentary cæca. This modest little bird is not uncommon throughout the year. It manifests little fear of approach, allowing one to come within a few feet, as it peeps about among the twigs of low trees and shrubs. It rather seems to have a good deal of curiosity, for it will peep at a person approaching, and if he move slowly and avoid anything to provoke alarm, will hop gradually down from twig to twig, stretching out its neck, until it is almost within touch. Three or four will sometimes chase each other among the branches, and from bush to bush, uttering at intervals a monotonous chirruping. Its notes are very varied; sometimes a loud _chewurr_, or _sweet-will_, uttered with deliberation and much mellowness of tone. I have heard it in March uttering with surprising loudness a single clear and shrill whistle, slightly modulated: after a while it changed this to a double note, _to-whit, to-whit_, equally loud and piercing. About the same season I have listened to _che-che-che-churrrr_; and in May, _sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, tŏ-too_. I have never found anything but seeds in the stomach of this bird; though I do not doubt that it eats insects also. The White-eyed Flycatcher is one of those species that are only partially migratory; during the summer it spreads over the United States. It is found throughout the year in our sultry island, though with diminished numbers in the summer.