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familiar in their habits, they are likely to be well known to every one. All the other 

 species are more or less birds of the woods and orchards, but each one of them in 

 its own chosen locality is rendering us good service the wdiole summer through. 



FLYCATHEES. 



Description. 



KINGBIKD. 



Upper parts grayish slate colour darker on the head and upper tail coverts; 

 crown with a concealed orange patch; tail black tipped with white; under parts 

 white, washed with grayish on the breast; wings dusky, with much whitish edging, 



L., 8.50; W., 4.60; T., 3.50. 



Nest, usually on the horizontal branch of a low tree Eggs, four or five, white, 

 spotted with reddish brown and lilac. 



CEESTED FLYCATCHEE. 



Upper parts grayish brown, tinged with olive; outer vane of primaries 

 margined with pale chestnut; inner vane of all but the middle tail feathers pale 

 chestnut; throat and 'breast pearly gray; belly sulphur yellow. 



L., 9.00; W., 4.15; T., 3.75. 



Xest, in a hole in a tree. Eggs, four or five, white, streaked lengthwise with 

 purplish brown and chocolate. 



PHCEBE. 



Upper parts dark grayish brown; crown much darker; wings and tail dusky, 

 outer tail feathers, inner secondaries and usually the wing coverts, edged with 

 whitish; under parts white tinged with brownish gray across the breast and else- 

 where, washed with yellowish. In the autumn the lower parts are often decidedly 

 yellow. 



L., 7.00; W., 3.33; T., 3.25. 



Nest, on a beam or rafter of a building. Eggs, four or five, usually pure white. 



OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHEE. 



Upper parts dusky brown, with an olive tinge; darker on the crown; wings 

 and tail dusky ; chin, throat, under tail coverts and centre line of the breast, white, 

 slightly tinged with yellowish ; rest of under parts grayish brown. A tuft of fluffy 

 yellowish white feathers on either flank. 



L., 7.40; W., 4.05; T., 2.70. 



Nest, on a horizontal branch of a tree. Eggs, four or five, creamy white, 

 spotted with reddish hrown. 



WOOD PEWEE. 



Upper parts olivaceous brown, rather darker on the head, wings and tail 

 dusky; wing coverts tipped with whitish, forming two, more or less, distinct wing 

 bars; under parts white, washed with olive gray on sides of throat and breast. 



L., 6.50; W., 3.33; T., 2.60. 



Nest, on a low tree. Eggs, four or five, white, dotted and marked at larger 

 end with various shades of brown. 



