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INSECTIVOROUS BIRDS. 
and lined with the hair of wild animals. The eggs, 4 
or 5, are white, tinged with flesh-color, with brownish 
red spots at the larger end. 
It possesses all the unsuspicious habits of the genus, 
allowing a near approach without alarm, and is at no 
period known to possess any song. It seldom rises be- 
yond the tops of the canes or low bushes, amidst which 
it is commonly seen hopping in quest of its subsistence, 
which consists of insects and berries. Its flight is gen- 
erally tremulous and agitated. 
This uncommon species is 5 inches long, and 8 in alar extent. 
The cheeks, upper part of the head, and neck, dark bluish-grey ; 
breast, pale cinereous, inclining to reddish-grey on the throat ; flanks 
and sides of the breast yellow ; back and tail-coverts dusky-olive ; 
the wings dusky-brown, with 2 white bands; primaries and tail- 
feathers bordered with light green ; tail emarginate, nearly black ; 
a line of white from the nostrils to the eye, which it also encircles. 
Belly and vent white. Bill very short, and nearly as broad as 
in the true Flycatchers. Upper mandible black; lower pale blu- 
ish-grey ; legs and feet, bluish-grey. Irids hazeb — Female with 
the head dusky-olive, and the throat greenish. 
WHITE-EYED VIREO, or FLYCATCHER. 
( Vireo noveboracensis , Bonap. Audubon, pi. 63. Ornith. Biog. i. p. 
328. Muscicapa cantatrix, Wilson, ii. p. 166. pi. 18. fig. 6. Phil. 
Museum, No. 6778.) 
Sp. Charact. — Yellow-olive; beneath white, sides yellow; line 
round the eye, and spot near the nostrils yellow ; wings with 2 
pale yellow bands, and with the tail blackish ; irids white. 
This interesting little bird appears to be a constant 
resident within the limits of the United States ; as, on the 
12th of January, I saw them in great numbers near 
Charleston, S. C. feeding on the wax-myrtle berries, in 
company with the Yellow-Rumped Sylvias. At this season 
they were silent, but very familiar, descending from the 
