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camp they had Ix'cn wont to patronize. For several days in the 

 toUowing month we tried to trace the male bird as he left the 

 camp, but it always went in what was ultimately found to be the 

 wrong direction. However, the bird did contribute to the 

 locating of the nest by the utterance, while building, of a melan- 

 choly monotone, as characteristic as the sweet nesting-note of the 

 Yellow-breasted Shrike-Robin {Eopsaltria australis). At times 

 this note would be emitted just once, very softly, and again the 



Nest and Eggs of Yellow- IjcUicd Shnke-Tit. 



FROM A PHOTO. BY A. H. CHISHOUM. 



Tit would become more loquacious, and continuously express 

 satisfaction with the world in general, and its mate in particular. 

 Without this bar, the finding of the nest would have been doubly 

 difficult, for the single, soft note is too ventriloquial to be easily 

 located, and a little cluster at the top of a saphng 40 feet in height 

 is rather much to look for in a forest. 



It was on 24th September that, having traced it to a hkely 



