VIREO NOVEBORACENSIS. 
80 
the middle of November ; and probably winters 
Mexico and the West Indies. 
This bird builds a very neat little nest, often in tb® 
figure of an inverted cone ; it is suspended by tW 
upper edge of the two sides, on the circular bend of * 
prickly vine, — a species of smilax that generally gro"^ 
in low thickets. Outwardly, it is comstructed of vario®” 
light materials, bits of rotten wood, fibres of dry stalb* 
of weeds, pieces of paper, commonly newspapers, 
article almost always found about its nest, so that sotf'^ 
of my friends have given it the name of the politicio^’, 
all these substances are interwoven with the silk 
caterpillars, and the inside is lined wdth fine dry gr^* 
and hair. The female lays five eggs, pure wbit^’ 
marked near the great end with a very few small dot* 
of deep black or purple. They generally raise t"'*’ 
brood in a season. They seem particularly attached ^ 
thickets of this species of smilax, and make a gr®* 
ado when any one comes near their nest ; approachitf ^ 
within a few feet, looking down, and scolding witb 
great vehemence. In Pennsylvania they are a numeroO* 
species. 
The white-eyed flycatcher is five inches and a qirart®* 
lonw, and seven in extent; the upper parts are a fitj- 
yellow olive, those below, white, except the sides 
the breast, and under the wings, which are yelloj*^* 
line round the eye, and spot near the nostril, also rk' 
yellow; wings, deep dusky black, edged with oliV! 
green, and crossed with two bars of pale yellow ; W.' 
forked, brownish black, edged with green olive ; h'*’’ 
legs, and feet, light blue ; the sides of the neck incliw 
to a greyish ash. The female and young of the 
season are scarcely distinguishable in plumage fr®*" 
the male. 
