Second Series. 



Vol. IT. No. 2. 



Second Quarter, 1906 



A MAGAZINE OF NORTH AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY 



Published Quarterly at Floral Park, N. Y. I Price. $1.()0 Per Year. 30 Cents Per Copy 



Published May 1st John Lewis Childs. Editor 



Plate II t Fig I. Eggs of the Santa Barbara Flycatcher 



(Empidonax insitlicold) 



EARLY in May, 1905, Mr. O. W. Howard visited Catalina Islands off the 

 coast of California in the hopes of finding the Santa Barbara Flycatch- 

 er breeding, as np to that time the nest and eggs of this species were un- 

 known to science. His trip was not in vain, for on May 4th he took two 

 sets of four eggs each ; also the nests and the parent birds. The nests were 

 found in a canvon, six to seven hundred feet altitude, one being in the fork 

 of a limb of a large shrub some eight feet from the ground ; the other in a 

 like situation ten feet from the ground. Both nests are well built, the ma- 

 terial used being bark fiber, vegetable clown, grasses, moss, etc. The eggs 

 are exceedingly handsome, and onr colored plate represents one set exactly 

 as to size and color. Both sets with nests and skins are in onr collection. 



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