306 INSECTIVOROUS BIRDS. 



and lined with the hair of wild animals. The eggs, 4 

 or 5, are white, tinged with flesh-color, with brownish 

 red spots at the larger end. 



It possesses all the unsuspicious habits of the genus, 

 allowing a near approach without alarm, and is at no 

 period known to possess any song. It seldom rises be- 

 yond the tops of the canes or low bushes, amidst which 

 it is commonly seen hopping in quest of its subsistence, 

 which consists of insects and berries. Its flight is gen- 

 erally tremulous and agitated. 



This uncommon species is 5 inches long, and 8 in alar extent. 

 The cheeks, upper part of the head, and neck, dark bluish-grey ; 

 breast, pale cinereous, inclining to reddish-grey on the throat; flanks 

 and sides of the breast yellow ; back and tail-coverts dusky-olive ; 

 the wings dusky-brown, with 2 white bands; primaries and tail- 

 feathers bordered with light green ; tail emarginate, nearly black ; 

 a line of white from the nostrils to the eye, which it also encircles. 

 Belly and vent white. Bill very short, and nearly as broad as 

 in the true Flycatchers. Upper mandible black ; lower pale blu- 

 ish-grey ; legs and feet, bluish-grey. Irids hazel. — Female with 

 the head dusky-olive, and the throat greenish. 



WHITE-EYED VIREO, or FLYCATCHER. 



(Vireo novehoracensis, Bonap. Audubon, pi. 63. Ornith. Biog. i. p. 



328. Muscicapa cantatrixf Wilson, ii. p. 166. pi. 18. fig. 6. Phil. 



Museum, No. 6778.) 

 Sr. Charact. — Yellow-olive; beneath white, sides yellow; line 



round the eye, and spot near the nostrils yellow ; wings with 2 



pale yellow bands, and with the tail blackish ; irids white. 



This interesting little bird appears to be a constant 

 resident within the limits of the United States ; as, on the 

 12th of January, I saw them in great numbers near 

 Charleston, S. C. feeding on the wax-myrtle berries, in 

 company with the Yellow-Rumped Sylvias. At this season 

 they were silent, but very familiar, descending from the 



