THE TRAILL FLYCATCHER. 



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bush or sapling of lowland thicket or swamp. Eggs, 3 or 4, not certainly dis- 

 tinguishable from those of preceding species. Av. size, .70 x .54 (17.8 x 13.7). 



General Range. Western North America from the Mississippi Valley 

 (Ohio, Illinois, and Michigan) to the Pacific and from the Fur Countries south 

 into Mexico. 



Range in Ohio. Locally common summer resident. Found in willows and 

 alders of swamps. 



EARLY in June your morning walk along the river bank is likely to be 

 interrupted by an imperative sivee-chee, issuing from the top of a hackberry 

 sapling hard by. This bird sits uneasily upon her perch and appears anxious, 

 worried. Only dire extremity, you may be sure, could induce her to ven- 

 ture so near this unknown monster, man. Sivee-chee, she challenges again, 

 and then amazed at her 

 own temerity, vanishes 

 into the thicket to be 

 seen no more. 

 There is a nest 

 near, but the 

 owner has done 

 her duty in pro- 

 claiming the 

 fact, and she 

 will not lead 

 further in the 

 search. At 

 about the level 

 of your head in 

 some willow or 

 alder clump, or 

 mayhap in a 

 hackberry like 

 the one upon 

 which she sat, 

 you will' find a 

 neat, substan- 

 tial cup of hemp 

 and grasses, 

 bound tightly to 

 an upright fork. 

 The nest might 

 have been a 



