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is the most numerous. They have much the same general habits 
and often associate intimately together; indeed, I have known one 
tree to contain nests of both species. The cries of verticalis are 
louder and harsher, with less of a sibilant quality, than those of the 
kingbird; but there is little else to note as different. The nests of 
the verticalis are bulky and conspicuous, all the more easily found 
because the bird has a way of leaving the general woods of the river 
bottom to go up to the ravines that make down from the hillsides, 
and there nest on some isolated tree, miles away, perhaps, from any 
landmark. ‘Taking nests of both species at the same time, I found 
that those of vertecalis were generally distinguishable by their larger 
size and softer make, with less fibrous and more fluffy material; but 
the eggs, if mixed together, could not be separated with any cer- 
tainty. The sets of eggs taken during the latter part of June con- 
sisted of from three to six. Eggs were found as late as the second 
week of July. The nests were placed in trees at a height of from five 
or. six to forty or fifty feet, generally in the crotch of a horizontal 
limb, at some distance from the main trunk; but in one case a nest 
was placed in the crotch which the first large bough made with the 
trunk. In one case a pair of the flvcatchers built in the same tree 
that contained the nest of Swainson’s buzzard, and both kinds of 
birds were incubating at peace with each other, if not with all the 
world, when I came along to disturb them. In another one they 
nested with a pair of kingbirds. The birds display admirable 
courage in defence of their homes, losing in their anxiety all sense 
of danger to themselves. (Coues.) 
CLXXXV. MYIARCHUS Cazanis. 1844. 
452. Crested Flycatcher. 
Myvarchus crinitus (LINN.) LicHT. 1854. 
Have observed this species at Scotch Lake, York co., N.B., in 
August; they seemed to be migrating in families. (W. H. Moore.) 
Taken near Woodstock, N.B., by Mr. Purdie, in 1878. (Chamber- 
lain.) Rare summer resident in woods near Quebec. (Dionne.), 
Common summer resident in the district of Montreal. (Wonile.) 
A common summer resident in the Ottawa district. (Ottawa 
Naturalist, Vol. V.) Regular migrant and summer resident at 
Toronto, Ont. Reported as common at Beaumaris, on May 12th, 
