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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; approching 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. 
