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around the eye, the lower mandible, and the bars across the 

 wing-coverts are also yellow. Its note is said to be a " low 

 pe-a" and its so-called song is said to sound like the sylla- 

 bles killick, repeated at rather long intervals. As to the 

 nest and eggs of this species, authors have been quite con- 

 fused; some reporting them pure white and others spotted; 

 but a nest examined by Messrs. Deane and Pardie, on the 

 18th of June, 1878, was quite conclusive. It was placed in 

 the upturned roots of a tree; and "a large dwelling it was 

 for so small and trim a bird. Built in and on to the black 

 mud clinging to the roots, but two feet from the ground, 

 the bulk of the nest was composed of dry moss, while the 

 outside was faced with beautiful fresh-green mosses, thickest 

 around the rim or parapet. The home of the Bridge Pe- 

 wee (Sayorms fuscus) was at once suggested. But no mud 

 entered into the actual composition of the nest, though at 

 first we thought so, so much was clinging to it when re- 

 moved. The lining was mainly of fine black rootlets, with 

 a few pine-needles and grass-stems. * * * The eggs, 

 four in number, were perfectly fresh, rounded-oval in shape, 

 and of a beautiful rosy-white tint, well spotted with a light 

 reddish shade of brown." An elegant nest, sent me from 

 Nova Scotia by Mr. Wagner, is made of fine dried grasses, 

 arranged in a bunch of moss. The four white eggs, some 

 .71 X.50, are beautifully specked, spotted, and even blotched 

 about the large end with light red. The nest was taken 

 from the ground with fresh eggs the 15th of June. 



TRAILL'S FLYCATCHER. 



Another Flycatcher about our low lands and swamps, and 

 especially along streams in such places, is Traill's Flycatcher 

 (Empidonax trailing. About six inches long, or sometimes a 

 little less, it is to be distinguished from the small Green- 



