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some others later on, for a particular reason, which will appear 
hereafter. 
The account of the Least Flycatcher (Empidonax minimus) 
presents nothing unusual, both nests being placed in the forks 
of apple trees (only seven yards apart) in an orchard near my house, 
the eggs in each case being identical in shape, size and number. 
The birds were not seen again after the second set was taken, but 
the orchard has been occupied by a pair (the same I feel sure) 
every year since, and one of the two trees was built in again on one 
occasion. Our next case the Kingbird (Tyrannus tyrannus) is 
a peculiar one in many ways. The first nest was in an apple tree 
ten feet above the ground, and after the first set was taken the 
birds remained near the site in an undecided kind of way, often 
perching in the tree and inspecting the nest. Eventually they 
made up their minds and did a little repairing (made necessary 
owing to the raids of other birds upon it for building material) 
and then laid another set of eggs. Upon these being taken they 
selected an old Baltimore Oriole’s nest in a somewhat tall maple 
in front of my house, where I could not reach them. Here in this 
strange abode they laid a third set of eggs and brought up a brood. 
The following year they were back again in the apple tree, and 
repaired the old nest, and I did not molest them. The markings 
on the second set are similar to the first, being generally distributed 
all over the eggs, rather smaller however in size and not quite so 
abundant at the larger end as in the first set. The shape is similar 
but much smaller, in fact they are the smallest set of Kingbirds I 
have found so far, the number however in each case was the same 
viz. three, and as I only saw three young birds, I have assumed that 
the third set contained the same number also. I have taken seven 
days as the time between the second and third sets (there being of 
course no nest to build only to repair) the female commencing to 
incubate on that day as near as I could tell. 
The Catbird’s (Dumetella carolinensis) first nest was in a little 
wood adjoining “the marsh” and was placed in a nut bush over- 
hanging the water. When the first set of eggs was taken they 
forsook the wood and built a second nest in a somewhat exposed 
thorn bush 268 yards (the greatest distance recorded) further along 
the marsh on the same side, but away from the water’s edge. 
