RED-EYED VIREO. 185 
In the month of August the young fed greedily on the small 
berries of the bitter cornel and astringent Viburnum dentatum, 
as well as other kinds. One of these inexperienced birds 
hopped close round me in an adjoining bush, without any fear- 
ful apprehension; and as late as the 26th of October two 
young. birds of the Red-Eye were still lingering in this vicinity, 
and busily engaged in gleaning subsistence. Eager after flies, 
about the 25th of August a young bird with hazel instead of 
red eyes entered a chamber in the neighborhood and became 
my inmate. I clipped his wing and left him at large in a 
room; he soon became very gentle, took grasshoppers and 
flies out of my hand, eat Vidurnum berries with a good appe- 
tite, and in short seemed pleased with his quarters. A fly 
could not stir but it was instantly caught; his only difficulty 
was with a lame King Bird who occupied the same apartment. 
The King appeared very jealous of this little harmless com- 
panion ; snapped his bill at him when he approached, and be- 
grudged him subsistence when he perceived that he fed on the 
same food with himself. At length he would come to me for 
provision and for protection from his tyrannical associate. But 
the career of my interesting and lively companion was soon 
terminated by death, occasioned, in all probability, by a diar- 
rhcea produced in consequence of swallowing a small lock of 
hair with his food, which was found in his stomach. This bird, 
very different from a Sylvia autumnalis which I afterwards had 
in my possession, regurgitated by the bill, like the King Bird, 
pellets of the indigestible parts of his food, such as the legs 
and wings of grasshoppers and flies, and the skins and seeds of 
berries. Unlike the King Bird in one particular, however, he 
folded his head under his wing when at rest, and reposed with 
great soundness ; whereas for eight months I was never able to 
detect the former asleep. 
