326 TEE eACADIAN EE MCAD CER: 
queep or chier-queer; whoty, whoty (Bendire) ; What-d’ye-see (Wheaton) ; 
tshee-kee, tshee-kee (Blanchan). Seven other authorities consulted wisely re- 
frained from the attempt. 
It is not altogether unusual to find the Acadian Flycatcher frequenting 
second growth clearings, and the woodsy borders which face damp brush lots, 
but he is more commonly found along the umbrageous vista of some unfre- 
quented wood-road, or in the gloomy heart of the forest. Here he waits im- 
patiently for mosquitoes and midges, darting at them suddenly from his perch, 
making a quick turn at the goal, and bringing his mandibles together sharply 
with a click which for one poor insect is the veritable crack of doom. Here, 
too, in some dim aisle of the forest, from the feathery tip of a horizontal or 
Photo by J. B. Parker. 
ACADIAN FLYCATCHER AND YOUNG. 
THE NEST IS THE SAME AS SHOWN IN THE PREVIOUS ILLUSTRATION. GROWN BOLDER THE MOTHER BIRD 
ALIGHTS ON THE LIMB PREPARATORY TO DIVIDING A MOTH AMONG HER BROOD. 
descending branch, a frail cradle is swung. It is a shallow saucer of fine 
twigs, leaf-stems, or the stalks of some slender vine made fast by the edges 
to forking twigs or half supported by them. Usually the materials are loosely 
interwoven and bound together by cobwebs, but the latter are often absent. 
Catkins and dried blossoms also generally enter into the construction. Occa- 
sionally the whole affair is so careless that it merits Dr. Wheaton’s comparison, 
“a tuft of hay caught by the limb from a load driven under it.” Beech trees 
are not the only hosts of this little gnat-king. Dr. Jones says, “I have taken 
nests from the maple, dogwood, oak, hickory, black-haw, thorn, Indian-arrow, 
beech, elm, papaw, willow, hazel, and wild grape-vine.” To this list must be 
added the hemlock, a favorite tree wherever it is to be found. 
