Rice Bunting and female
Red-eyed Flycatcher
Marsh Wren
Great Carolina Wren
Yellow-Throated Warbler
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Red-eyed Flycatcher
"In Jamaica, where this bird winters, and is probably also resident, it is called...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 imagination to fancy that
you hear it pronounce these words, Tom-kelly, whip-tom-kelly!' very distinctly."
Marsh Wren
"Standing on the reedy borders of the Schuylkill or Delaware, in the month of June, you hear a
low, crackling sound, something similar to that produced by air bubbles forcing their way
through mud or boggy ground when trop upon; this is the song of the marsh wren. But as, among
the human race, it is not given to one man to excel in every thing, and yet each, perhaps, has
something peculiarly his own; so among birds, we find a like distribution of talents and
peculiarities. The little bird now before us, if deficient and contemptible in singing, excels in the
art of design, and constructs a nest, which, in durability, warmth, and convenience, is scarcely
inferior to one, and far superior to many, of its more musical brethren."
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