THE TRAILL FLYCATCHER. 429 
bush or sapling of lowland thicket or swamp. Eggs, 3 or 4, not certainly dis- 
tinguishable from those of preceding species. Av. size, .70 x .54 (17.8 x 13.7). 
General Range.—Western North America from the Mississippi Valley 
(Ohio, Illinois, and Michigan) to the Pacific and from the Fur Countries south 
into Mexico. 
Range in Ohio.—Locally common summer resident. Found in willows and 
alders of swamps. 
EARLY in June your morning walk along the river bank is likely to be 
interrupted by an imperative swee-chee, issuing from the top of a hackberry 
sapling hard by. This bird sits uneasily upon her perch and appears anxious, 
worried. Only dire extremity, you may be sure, could induce her to ven- 
ture so near this unknown monster, man.  S‘wee-chee, she challenges again, 
and then amazed at her 
own temerity, vanishes 
into the thicket to be 
seen. no more. 
There is a nest 
near, but the 
owner has done 
her duty in pro- 
claiming the 
fact, and she 
will not lead 
further in the 
S@aireln, Ave 
about the level 
of your head in 
some willow or 
alder clump, or 
mayhap in a 
hackberry like 
the one upon 
which she sat, 
you will find a 
neat, substan- 
tial cup of hemp he ey 
and grasses, Taken at the Licking Reservoir. yy 
bound tightly to 
an upright fork. 
The nest might bated 
NEST AND EGGS OF THE 
have been a TRAILL FLYCATCHER. 
Photo by the Author. 
A WELL-BUILT CUP. 
