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Several birds enter the same places, and even during the day 

 they resort to them for rest. 



When their breeding season arrives, they fasten cotton, and 

 vegetable wool from various plants, to one of the sides of their 

 retreat, mixing leaves and feathers, till the nest is completed, leav- 

 ing only a narrow space between the nest and the opposite side 

 for an entrance. I have not yet ascertained whether the sub- 

 stance employed by the birds is their saliva, or some resinous 

 matter. The great difference in the size of the nests induces 

 me to suppose that they repair their old nests, returning to 

 them at each succeeding season. 



They lay three and sometimes four white eggs of 0.016 

 by 0.011. As I found fully fledged young in the beginning of 

 June, and also fresh eggs in the first days of July, we may 

 suppose that their breeding takes place from the end of April 

 to the middle of July. 



II. Myiadestes Elisabeth, Lemb. 



Muscicapa Elisabeth, Lemb. Aves de Cuba, p. 39, pi. 5, 

 fig. 3. This species belongs to the genus Myiadestes, in which 

 must also be included PtUogonys Townsendi And., and Ptilo- 

 gonys armillatus Gray, of Jamaica. 



My present object is to give a more extensive description of 

 this remarkable bird, than that found in Lembeye's work. 



Both sexes : vertex, back, lesser wing-coverts, last scapulars, 

 and middle tail feathers olivaceous ash, sides of the throat and 

 rump more greyish. Lores and upper part of the ear ferru- 

 ginous ash, a lighter circle of this color around the eye. Greater 

 wing-coverts and primary quills brown, with the inner edge 

 olivaceous ash. From the 7th to the 16th quill their base is of 

 an olivaceous bay color, and from the middle to the end the 

 same, the intermediate space being brown with an olivaceous 

 edge ; the tip whitish. Tail feathers, except the two middle, 

 brown, the 5th ashy olive in its exterior vanes with narrow 



