THE ACADIAN FLYCATCHER. 325 
green and ochrey brown, or else becheckered by the soft sunlight as it comes 
sifting down through unstained windows. Here a group of tapering pillars, 
a closer brotherhood, incline in reverence to the whispering breeze, and cast 
an ample shade for the inner shrine; and here a fallen tree, grown old in ser- 
vice but useful still, invites the worshipper to pause and rest. 
In such a sacred spot as this the Acadian Flycatcher has chosen to spend 
its brief summer. Within the shadow of a single wood it finds its mate, rears 
young, and gathers strength for the return across the unknown wastes to 
Florida. 
The first notice which we have of the bird’s arrival, sometime during the 
last week in April, is a 
fairy sneeze heard in the 
depths of the wood. 
“Cleotip,’ it says, 
but with the 
time and em- 
phasis ofa 
“Kachew.” This 
note comes not 
from the tip of 
some dead limb 
in full view, as 
would be the 
case with other 
Plyeat ch - 
ers, but from a 
clear space on 
some lower 
Photo by J. B. Parker. 
limb or middle THE TRIUMPH OF MOTHER-LOVE. 
A 1o p. 
height. The ALTHO IN TERROR OF THE CAMERA, THIS MOTHER FLYCATCHER VENTURES TO 
bird delivers his FEED HER FAMISHING BROOD WHILE HOVERING OVER THEM ON THE WING. 
salutation with 
a good deal of apparent effort, as tho he were clearing an obstruction from his 
beak, and he jerks his tail at the same time by way of emphasis. His repertory 
of song contains no other notes save a low humming titter of adulation, common 
to the little Flycatchers, and a sharp scolding note, swezw, or more rarely sweet, 
with a sort of explosiveness at the finish. Altho these are the only notes which l 
have observed in a somewhat extended acquaintance, one cannot afford to be 
dogmatic on this subject. As matter of curiosity the following list of interpreta- 
uions is presented, as culled from seven authors: Queae, queae, tchoac, tchewee, 
weet, weet, weet, will; chirr (Audubon) ; quequeal (Allen); spee or peet; 
pee-e-yuk (Chapman); e-chee-ah (Nehrling); wick-wp or hick-up; queep- 
