OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA. 167 



According to Wilson the nest is placed in the 

 fork of a small bush and is very neatly and com- 

 pactly built. It is formed externally of flaxen 

 fibres of plants and moss, and lined with hair and 

 feathers. Mr. Audubon says it is placed a few 

 feet from the ground, and is found in low situa- 

 tions. The late Dr. Gerhardt of Georgia, in writing 

 to Dr. Brewer, says that it is built of coarse grass 

 and dry leaves, externally, and internally of pine- 

 needles interwoven with horse-hair and long yellow 

 grasses, and resembles the nest of Spiza cyanea, 

 but is larger. The nest he further affirms is 

 placed upon oak bushes, four or five feet from the 

 ground, close by brooks and creeks, Mr. Ridg- 

 way states it to be a common summer resident in 

 'the bottom-lands of sotthern Illinois, where it in- 

 habits the borders of bushy swamps and cane- 

 brakes. 



The eggs are four or five in number, oval in 

 shape, and pointed at one extremity. They have 

 a beautiful white background, flesh-colored when 

 fresh, and are marked with fine, red spots, and a 

 few of subdued purple. The length is .70 of an 

 inch, and the breadth .50. 



Myiodioctes pusilhts, Bonap. 



The Green Black-capped Flycatcher is pretty 

 abundant in Eastern Pennsylvania, where it ar- 

 rives early in May in transitu, and leaves about 

 the 1 5th of the same month. Like its near cousin 



