50 



Dircclor s Annual RcpOTt . 



a fine padding of material resembling the paper fibre made by 

 wasps. The nest has a very curious projection of fibres extend- 

 ing from the bottom. This pretty little structure is usually built 

 in'^the Mapuna tree, where a number of branches converge some 

 ten or twenty feet from the ground. Inside the nest measures 

 1. 53X1.50, while its depth is .85 ; outside it measures i. 83X1.85, 

 with a depth of 2.50. ( Fig. 3. ) 



FIG. 



KHII'IDURA URANIA, OU.ST. 



Genus MYIAGRA \'ig()RS <S: Horsfield. 



50. Myiagra freycineti Oust. Chigunguan. De Frey- 

 cinet's Fly-catcher. 



Mxiiiiiia ft eye i net i. Oust.. lUil. Soc. I'hilom., iS8i (7), V., p. 73; Id.. Naturaliste, 1889. p. 260; 

 Wigle.sw.. Aves Polvnts.. ]j. 24 ; Harttrt. On the Bird.s of the Mariana I.slaiids, Nov. Zool., 

 v., p. 54. 



The little De Freycinet's Fly-catcher is connnon in all parts of 

 the island. Upon first hearing the notes of this bird I thought 

 surelv a Bush-tit, l>y some strange accident, had arrived on the 



