THE LAKE OF PITCH. 65 



color. Both are Flycatchers, one with white head and neck 

 White-headed Marsh Flycatcher ** perching in the reeds 

 and making fierce sallies after passing insects, while even 

 more beautiful and conspicuous are the little terrestrial 

 Flycatchers White-shouldered Ground Flycatchers 97 or 

 " Cotton Birds " which scurry along the ground over 



AMAZON PARROT AT ENTRANCE OF NEST. 

 FIG. 34. FIFTEEN FEET AWAY. FIG. 35. TEN FEET AWAY. 



pitch and fallen logs. Their tails continually wag from side 

 to side, and they come within a few feet of us, uttering low 

 inquiring notes: pit! pit! They too are clad in white, except 

 for back, nape, wings, and tail. 



We follow one about, watching it through the ground- 

 glass of the camera, when we blunder into a thicket of dry, 



