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blue-eyed yellow waebler. 
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snt olive ; the tips of the wings, and the 
thg''j^*j^®^the tail feathers excepted, rvhich are brownish ; 
"rti; ' 
'oo!o head is of a dull slate colour; the breast is 
, ‘®"tpd with a sinjidar crescent of alternate trans- 
all Jr **'as of pure glossy white, and very deep black ; 
thg * * •'est of the lower parts are of a brilliant yellow ; 
rounded at the end ; legs and feet, a jiale flesh 
> bill, deep brownish black above, lighter below ; 
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azel. 
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• Si'LriA CITniXF.I.I,A, WILSON S. JESTJFA, LATHAM. 
BLUE-EYED YELLOW WAHBLER. 
WILSOX, PL.^TE XV. FIG. V. 
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is a very common summer species, and appears 
l)lo nlways actively employed among the leaves and 
8o},f of the willows, snowball shrub, and poplars, 
pfj ' ."ng after small green caterpillars, which are its 
CiUljj food. It has a few shrill notes, uttered with 
but not deserving the name of song. It 
I'onnsjdvania about the beginning of May, 
Senj ‘P^*4s again for the south about the middle of 
(iijj*®her. According to Latham, it is numerous in 
Spfi J“b and is also found in Canada. It is a very 
unsuspicious, and familiar little bird ; is often 
tr^g and about gardens, among the blossoms of fruit 
’**"1 shrubberies ; and, on account of its colour, is 
Seiip ''”^‘ncable. Its nest is built with great neatness, 
Or hi the triangular fork of a small shrub, near 
"long brier bushes. Outwardly it is composed of 
toiwT in thick circular layers, strongly tw'isted 
tliu . ’^^he twigs that rise through its sides, and lined 
th(> n' **^h hair and the soft downy substance from 
ivfljj. _ hs of fern. The eggs are four or five, of a dull 
of fliickly sprinkled near the great end with specks 
hrovvn. They raise two brood in the season. 
t^r^^y htle bird, like many others, will feign lameness, to 
you away from its nest, stretching out his neck. 
