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12 cm (5") Common in eastern United States; casual to southern Ontario. Open deciduous saplings, wood margins, overgrown fields, mangrove swamps.
Olive upperparts. Chestnut streaks on back may be visible. Bright yellow eyebrow stripe. Yellow patch below eye. Bright yellow underparts. Black streaked sides. Two pale wing bars.
Immature: grayish-olive above. Yellow below. Females have gray breast band.
Tail-wagging habit.
Usually in lower branches and brush.
Song: thin "zee zee zee zee ze".
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