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Mr. van Rossem (1936) says: "A nest was found on May 13. It 

 was about twenty-five feet above the ground and was tucked into 

 the pendant stems of a clump of mistletoe which grew at the tip of 

 a Cottonwood branch. * * * It was a thick-walled, rather loose- 

 ly packed, four-inch globe of grasses and fine weeds with the interior 

 well padded with plant-down, feathers and a small amount of rabbit 

 fur. The entrance was in the side, slightly above center." 



H. H. Kimball took a set of eggs of the beardless flycatcher near 

 Tucson, Ariz., on July 10, 1922, that is now in the P. B. Philipp col- 

 lection in the American Museum of Natural History, in New York. 

 Mr. Amadon tells me that, according to the data furnished with it, 

 the nest was "in a bunch of mistletoe in a large ash tree on a high 

 point of land between two forks of a creek, 40 feet from the ground, 

 12 feet from the tree trunk." 



There is another set of eggs in the Thayer collection, taken by 

 Mr. Kimball near Tucson on June 25, 1923; the nest was 50 feet 

 from the ground and 30 feet from the trunk of a large cottonwood; 

 the nest came with the set and appears to have been built in the 

 midst of a clump of mistletoe, as it is surrounded with the twigs, 

 leaves, and blossom stalks of the mistletoe, now faded to a warm buff 

 color; the nest is similar to the one described by Mr. van Rossem, 

 with the mistletoe material added to the exterior. 



Egg8. — Perhaps the normal set of eggs for the beardless flycatcher 

 consists of three, but incubated sets of two and even one have been 

 collected. Wliat few eggs I have seen, only six, are ovate and with- 

 out gloss. They are pure white and are finely sprinkled, chiefly 

 about the larger end, more sparingly elsewhere, with small spots or 

 minute dots of dark brown, light brown, or reddish brown and 

 shades of drab. The measurements of 9 eggs average 16.5 by 12.2 

 millimeters; the eggs showing the four extremes measure 17.0 by 

 12.7, 17.0 by 13.1, and 14.8 by 11.4 millimeters. 



Young. — William Brewster (1882b) says: "On May 28 Mr. 

 Stephens met with a young bird which had but just left the nest. 

 It was accompanied by the female parent, who showed much solici- 

 tude and frequently uttered her shrill cries, to which the offspring re- 

 sponded in nearly similar tones. Both individuals were secured, but 

 neither the nest nor the remainder of the brood — if indeed there 

 were any more — could he find. On the following day this episode 

 was repeated, a second female being found in attendance on another 

 young bird of nearly the same age as that obtained on the previous 

 occasion." 



PZwwap'es.— According to Ridgway (1907), young birds in juvenal 

 plumage are "essentially like adults, but general color of upper parts 

 nearly hair brown, the pileura concolor with back, etc., and the 



