460 General Notes. [^f 



About 8 seeds of grass, 2%. 



A few seeds of Oxalis sp. and a few unidentified, 1%. 



Some bits of dead leaves and green browse, the latter probably from 

 touch-me-not, 20%. 



"Mineral matter consisting of 2 pebbles, is 2% of the entire bulk." — 

 J. A. Weber, New York City. 



Swallow-tailed Flycatcher (Muscivora forficata) in New Brunswick. 

 — Through the kindness of Mr. W. H. Moore, Scotch Lake, N. B., the 

 Biological Survey has received the first record of the Scissor-tailed Fly- 

 catcher in New Brunswick. The bird was shot May 21, 1906, by Mr. 

 G. S. Lacey at Clarendon Station and has been mounted by Emmach Bus 

 of Scotch Lake. — Wells W. Cooke, Biological Survey, Washington, D. C. 



Nests and Eggs of the Beardless Flycatcher (Ornithion imberbe). — 

 I purchased two sets of Beardless Flycatcher's (Ornithion imberbe) eggs 

 of Mr. Gerald B. Thomas of Livermore, Iowa, who spent last spring col- 

 lecting in British Honduras, Central America. 



The type set was taken, with both parent birds, near the Manatee River, 

 British Honduras, May 7, 1906. The set contained two eggs, advanced 

 in incubation. The nest was placed in a small palmetto, 4J feet from the 

 ground and is composed of palmetto fiber and small weed stems, lined 

 with cottony seed fiber of orchids. The nest is globular, with the entrance 

 at the side. 



The ground color of the eggs is white. They are spotted with lilac and 

 dark and reddish brown about the crown, forming a ring. They resemble 

 the eggs of Dendroica pensylvanica . The measurements are as follows: 

 .66 X .4S, .66 X .47 inches. 



Set No. 2. This set was found May 16, 1906, about two miles distant 

 from the place where the first set was taken. It contained two eggs, 

 too far advanced to blow. The nest is made of palmetto fibers and other 

 cottony fibers woven together between the stems of palmetto. It was 

 placed 7 feet from the ground and resembles the type set. 



One of the eggs is like the other two of the first set, but the other has 

 more spots over the whole surface and the color is lilac rather than reddish 

 brown. They measure .67 X .48, .68 X .49 inches. 



Thomas writes as follows: "The first set of Beardless Flycatchers was 

 taken from a nest in a small palmetto, about 4 J feet from the ground. 

 The palmetto was on the edge of quite a clump of its kind and was situated 

 in a flat sandy stretch of low land about five miles from the coast. The 

 nearest fresh water was about two miles away. 



"The other nest was in a similar location about two miles from where 

 the type was found. This nest was about 7 feet from the ground and only 

 a few rods from a freshwater creek. Two other nests — old ones — were 

 found and both were built in palmettos, one about 12 feet from the ground 

 and the other about 6 feet. 



