iSHO Rki'oki' ok Sia'I'k (-JKoiAXiisr. 



wht" eomiug i'roiu the highor limbs of a tree in the woods. Lt is a 

 last year's friend. A step into the clearing will show him on the dead 

 limb of a dying sugtu- tree. A second time he greets one, and another 

 name is added to the list of arrivals. It is the Crested Flycatcher. 

 There is a hole, whether made by Woodpeckers I can not tell, in the 

 top of the old forest guai'dian, where it sits. There it had a nest last 

 year, and purposes to nse it again this. Such is the site it prefers, but 

 it is not extremely particular in that regard. Dr. Haymond once 

 showed me a hollow apple tree limb where one nested in a busy part 

 of town. 



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Crested Flvi-atcher. vHeiluued.) 



Mr. r. H. Barton found a nest containing 3 eggs in a half -gallon 

 tin can along a garden fence, in town, one spring. Almost every nest 

 found contains more or less of the cast-otf skin of a snake. Both sexes 

 assist in nest-building, in which they use leaves, grass, weeds, bark, 

 rootlets and feathers. The female does most of the sitting, which re- 

 quires about fifteen days. One egg is laid daily. But one brood is 

 reiu-ed yearly. They are very noisy at mating time. Afterwards the 

 uoise grows less through June, and in July fails. Occasionally it is 

 lieard before leaving. September 1, 1897, T found one uttering it^ 

 usual call, but not so emphatically as when a gay and careless bird, in 

 AEay. They leave through August and September. The following 

 are dates when they were last seen: Sedan, Tnd., August 21, 1892: 

 August 30, 1887; September 9, 1895; Bicknell, Ind., September 7, 

 1890, September 18, 1895, September 21, 189-1; Warren County, Sep- 

 tember 18. 1897: Brookville. August 29, 1887. Septombor 3. 188(5. 



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