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108. TYRANNUS TYRANNUS (Linnieus). KINGBIRD. (444) 
A common summer resident in all the counties. 
Carroll County: June 19, 1882, set of three fresh eggs, nest in an apple 
tree in home orchard; June 18, 1883, set of four fresh eggs; first observed 
in 1883 on April 29; in 1885, on April 22. 
Monroe Cownty: Common in the orchards about Bloomington in the sum- 
mers of 1882, 1886 and 1888. 
Vigo County: April 22, 1888, ten or 15 noted; April 7, 1889, and April 6, 
1890. 
109. MyIARCHUS CRINITUS (Linnzeus). CRESTED FLYCATCHER. (452) 
Fairly common summer resident, most often seen in woodlands at the 
edge of open fields. Nests in holes in trees and has the curious habit of 
almost invariably using at least a part of a cast-off snake-skin in its nest. 
In 1882, a pair nested in a section of an old pump-stock which I placed some 
20 feet from the ground in a beech tree in my father’s barn-lot. 
In Carroll County arrives about the last of April; noted May 18, 1878; 
May 3, 1888; June 18, 1885, set of three fresh eggs; April 28, 1884, and 
again on April 28, 1885, in Adams Township. Noted at Bloomington, April 
26, 1886. Noted at Terre Haute April 21, 1888, and April 25, 1889. 
110. SAYORNIS PH@BE (Latham). PHQGBE; PEWEE. (456) 
. A common and familiar summer resident. Appears in spring as early as 
the middle of March and remains quite late in the fall. Builds its nest of 
mud and moss, placing it under some bridge or culvert, under the eaves 
of a house, shed or barn, on the side of a cliff, or sometimes in a hollow 
tree. On May 9, 1890, I found a nest on the side of a sandstone cliff in a 
gorge at Fern, near Greencastle. It contained three fresh Pewee eggs and 
two fresh eggs of the cowbird. 
Carroll County: March 8, 1879, six or eight seen; April 21, 1883, set of 
four fresh eggs; first one seen March 17, 1884, near Pleasant Valley, and 
Mareh 31, 1885, near Camden depot. Noted building, March 26, 1884. For 
many years a pair placed their nest on a projecting board oyer the door 
of our granary near Burlington. 
Monroe County: Arrives about the first of March; found nesting April 21, 
1882, a set of four well incubated eggs. 
Vigo County: Noted March 17, 1888, March 21, 1889, and Mareh 30, 1890. 
June 2, 1882, a set of four in nest in a deserted house near Wyandotte 
Cave, that were very unusual in color, they being indigo-blue over about 
one-third of the surface. 
111. MyIoCHANES VIRENS (Linnieus). WOOD PEWEE. (461) 
A rather common summer resident, most frequent in the open woods. 
Arrives in Carroll County about the last week in April. One seen near 
Joseph Trent’s east of Camden, April 24, 1885; common in the woods on 
May 22, 1883. Nest with full complement of eggs in beech tree on home 
farm, June 18, 18838. Noted at Bloomington, April 28, 1886. 
Noted at Terre Haute April 30 and May 2 and 5, 1888. 
