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127. Canadian Flycatching Warbler — mviodioctes canadensis. White, 

 beautifully marked with dots and small blotches of blended brown, purple 

 and violet, varying in shades and tints in a wreath around the larger end; 

 four or five, average measurement .75 by .56. The Canada Flycatcher 

 breeds from Massachusetts northward. The nest is placed on the ground, 

 usually at the foot of a tussock of grass, and, most generally, in swampy 

 ground. It is composed of fibres of bark, leaves, needles of the white 

 pine and rootlets, very loosely put together. 



Hab. Eastern Province of U. S., west to the Missouri; south to Mexico, Central America and Ecuador; 

 west to the Plains. 



128. American Redstart — setophaga ruticilla. Grayish-white, dot- 

 ted and blotched with brown, lilac and purple; they resemble the eggs of 

 the Yellow Warbler, but having a grayish ground instead of a light green ; 

 four or five in number and measure from .58 to .68 in length by .48 to .52. 

 The richly-colored Redstart is found during the breeding season in Eastern 

 United States north to Labrador. It builds a beautiful little nest, usually 

 in the low branch of a tree or small sapling, and almost always in exten- 

 sive and retired woods. It is made of very soft materials — fine strips of 

 bark, hempen fibres, down of plants, and lined with hair and fine grasses. 



Hab. Greater part of temperate N. A., especially the Eastern Province; north to Fort Simpson; west 

 to Utah. 



129. Painted Redstart — setophaga picta. In the Bulletin of the Nut- 

 tall Ornithological Club for July, 1882, Mr. William Brewster describes 

 the previously unknown nest and eggs of this bird, collected in the Santa 

 Rita Mountains, in Arizona, by Mr. F. Stephens. What is remarkable 

 about the nesting site is, that it was "under a projecting stone in a bank 

 near a small stream." The nest was large, flat and shallow, composed of 

 coarse fibres of weed-stalks and fine bleached grasses, the latter, with a 

 few hairs, formed the lining. The eggs, like the nest, did not resemble 

 those of the preceding species, 5. ruticilla; they were three in number 

 and measured .64 by .51, .64 by .50, .66 by .49. They were clear dead 

 white, delicately spotted with light reddish-brown, the markings being 

 sparsely distributed over the general surface and handsomely wreathed 

 about the larger end. 



135. Red-eyed Vireo — vireosylvia olivacea. Sparsely sprinkled on 

 a pure white ground, with fine dark, reddish-brown dots chiefly at the 

 larger end ; they are four or five in number and measure .80 to .85 in 

 length by about .60 in breadth. The Red-eyed Greenlet apparently 

 breeds wherever found, and in especial abundance in the Central States. 

 The nest, like all others of this family, is a well-woven pendulous cup sus- 

 pended from a forked twig. It is placed in a sapling and often in trees as 



