392 THE WRIGHT FLYCATCHER. 
more or less pale below and dusky tipped. Young birds are whitish below and the 
wing-bands are buffy as in other species. Length about 5.75 (146); wing 2.69 
(68) ; tail 2.40 (61); bill .47 (12); tarsus .71 (18). 
Recognition Marks.—Warbler size; prevailing gray coloration; whitish eye- 
ring; excessively retiring habits. 
Nesting.—Nest: of hemp, bark-strips, ete., softly lined; built in upright 
crotch of bush. Eggs: 4 or 5, white, unmarked. Av. size, .68 x .52 (17.3 x 13.2). 
Season: June; one brood. 
General Range.—Western United States and southern British Columbia, 
breeding in Transition and Canadian life-zones, south to southern Arizona and 
east to Rocky Mountains; south in winter thru southern California and Mexico. 
Authorities——Dawson, Auk, Vol. XIV. Apr. 1897, p. 170. 
Specimens.—Proy. C. 
BIRD-AFRAID-OF-HIS-SHADOW is the name this shy recluse de- 
serves. The few seen in Washington have always been skulking in the 
depths of brush patches, or in clumps of thorn bushes, and they seem to 
dread nothing so much as the human eye. For all they keep so close to 
cover they move about restlessly and are never still long enough to afford 
any satisfaction to the beholder. 
The only note I have ever heard it utter (and this repeatedly by different 
individuals) was a soft liquid swt. But Major Bendire says of its occur- 
rence at Fort Klamath in Oregon: “I do not consider this species as noisy 
as the Little Flycatcher [&. traillii] which was nearly as common, but its 
notes are very similar; in fact they are not easily distinguishable, but are 
given with less vigor than those of the former, while in its actions it is 
fully as energetic and sprightly as any of the species of the genus Eimpi- 
donax.” 
Wright’s Flycatcher affects higher altitudes than do the other species 
during the nesting season. ‘The nest is placed at heights ranging from two 
to twenty feet, and is built in upright forks of bushes, or against the trunks 
of small saplings. Willows, alders, aspens, buck-brush, and service berry are 
common hosts. Perhaps the only nesting record for Washington consists 
of a set of four fresh eggs taken by myself from a draw on the side of 
Boulder Mountain overlooking the Stehekin Valley, on May 30, 1896. The 
nest had been deserted because of a brush fire which had swept the draw, 
but it was uninjured; and the situation, an alder fork eight feet up, together 
with the white eggs, made identification certain. 
