294 WHITE-EYED FLYCATCHER. 



stances are interwoven with the silk of caterpillars, and the in- 

 side is lined with fine dry grass and hair. The female lays five 

 eggs, pure white, marked near the great end with a very few 

 small dots of deep black or purple. They generally raise two 

 brood in a season. They seem particularly attached to thickets 

 of this species of Smilax, and make a great ado when any one 

 comes near their nest; approchmg within a few feet, looking 

 down, and scolding with great vehemence. In Pennsylvania 

 they are a numerous species. 



The White-eyed Flycatcher is five inches and a quarter long, 

 and seven in extent; the upper parts are a fine yellow olive, 

 those below white, except the sides of the breast, and under 

 the wings, which are yellow; line round the eye, and spot near 

 the nostril also rich yellow; wings deep dusky black, edged 

 with olive green, and crossed with two bars of pale yellow; tail 

 forked, brownish black, edged with green olive; bill, legs and 

 feet light blue; the sides of the neck incline to a grayish ash. 

 The female, and young of the first season, are scarcely distin- 

 guishable in plumage from the male. 



