354 North American iurds. 



st'coiul speciinoii, ()l)tixiii(ul soon (ifter, wore feiimles, on the point of incuba- 

 tion. A tliird Ifiiiiilc WHS sliot in the lollowiii;,' your, .Fiine L'l. Supiio.sod to 

 1)0 11 now siiocios, it wiis doscriliod by Mr. Xuttull us Ti/rttuiuiti rod/xri. All 

 the Hi»orinioMs proourod luid their stonuichs tilled with turn l'ra;^nients ol' beos, 

 wiusp.s, and similar in.sects. 



Mr. Nutlall, who watched the motions of two other liviii},' individuals of 

 this s])ooio.s, states that they appeared tyrannical ami (juarrelsome even with 

 each other. Their attacks were always accompanied with a whining, (pieru- 

 lous twitter. The disjjutcs seemed to be about the occupancy of certain terri- 

 tories. One bird, a feiiialo, apptMired to contine herself to a small clump of red 

 cedars, in the midst of a sandy piece of forest. From the tree-tops she kept 

 a sharp lookout for passing' in.sects, and purstied them, as they ai)peared, with 

 great vigor and success, sometimes chasing them to the ground, and returning 

 to her i)erch with a mouthful which slut devoured at her leisure. Wiien 

 .she resumed her ])osition, she would occasionally (juiver her wings and tail, 

 erect her crest, keeping up a whistling call iii' j>ii-pi1, uttered with variations. 

 Besides this call the. male had a short song which souniled like ch'-j)hchee. 



The nest of this pair Mr. Xuttall discovered in the horizontal l)ranch of a 

 tall rod cedar, fifty feet from the ground. It was made o.xtornally of inter- 

 laced dead twigs of the cedar, lined with wiry stems, and dry grasses, and 

 fragments of lichens. It contained three young, which remained in the nest 

 twenty-three days, and wore fed on beetles and other in.sects. liefore they 

 left their nests they coidd ily as well as their pdirents. Tiie male bird M-as 

 very watchful, and would fretpiently follow ^h\ Nuttall half a mile. They 

 were in no way timid, and allowed him to investigate them and their premi- 

 ses without any signs of alarm. 



In I'S.WJ, tiie same ]iair, a]>parently,took po.sses.sion of a small juniper, near 

 the tro(! thoy had ()C(!ui)ied the year before, in which, at the heiglit of lil'teen 

 feet, they placed their nest. It contained four eggs which, except in their 

 sujiorior size, won^ ]irocisoly similar to those of the Wood IVweo, yellowish 

 cream-color, with dark brown and lavencU-r-purple spots, thinly disjjorsed. 

 Alter removing two of these eggs, the others were accidentally rolled out of the 

 nest. The pair constructed another nest, iigain in a cedar-troe, at a short dis- 

 tinico. The next year thoy did not return to that locality. ]Mr. Nuttall after- 

 wards met with individuals of this species in the fir woods on the ('olund)ia. 



On the Sth of August, 18:52, Mr. Audubon, in company with Mr. Xuttall, 

 obtained the s])ecimen of this species in lirookUne, Mass., from which his 

 drawing was made. In the course of his journey farther east, Atulubon 

 found it in ;\Iaine, on the Magdeleine Islantls, and on the coast of Labrador. 

 He afterwards met with it in Texas. 



iSIr. P.oardman reports the Olive-sided Flycatoher as having of late years 

 been very abundant during the summer in the dead wo(k1s about the lakes 

 west of f'alnis, where formerly they were (piite uncommon. Mr. Yeirill 

 metitious it as a summer visitant in Oxford County, in the w(.'8tern part o; 



