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and the inside 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 broods 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, approaching 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 

 distinguishable in plumage from the male. 



MOTTLED OWL. (Strix ncevia.) 



PLATE XIX.— Fig. 1. 



Arct. Zool. 231, No. 118.— Lath. i. 126.— Turton, i. 167 — Peak's Museum, 

 No. 444. 



STRIX ASIO.— Linnjsus.* 



Strix asio, Bonap. Synop. p. 36. — Hibou asio, Temm. PI. col. pi. 80. — The Little 

 Screech Owl, Aud. pi. 97, adult and young, Om. Biog. L p. 486. 



On contemplating the grave and antiquated figure of this 

 night wanderer, so destitute of everything like gracefulness of 

 shape, I can scarcely refrain from smiling at the conceit of 



* The difference in the plumage of the young and old has caused 

 Wilson to fall into a mistake, and multiply species by introducing the 

 different states under distinct specific appellations. On Plate XLII. is 

 represented the young plumage of the bird, under the name which must 



