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a fine padding of material resembling the paper fibre made b}- 

 wasps. The nest has a very curions projection of fibres extend- 

 ing from the bottom. This pretty little structure is usually bviilt 

 in the Mapuna tree, where a number of branches converge some 

 ten or twenty feet from the ground. Inside the nest measures 

 1. 53X1.50, while its depth is .85 ; outside it measures i. 83X1. 85, 

 with a depth of 2.50. (Fig. 3. ) 



FIG. 



RHIPIDURA URANIA. OUST. 



Gkxus MYIAGRA Vic.oRS ^: Hoksfield. 



50. Myiagra freycineti Oust. Chigunguan. De Frey- 

 cinet's Fly-catcher. 



Mriaiira fintiiicli. Oust.. Bill. ,Soc. Philoni., i.SSi (7). V., p. 7,^; Id:. Xaturaliste. iSSg. p. 260; 

 Wiglesw., Aves rolynes.. p. 24 ; Hartert. On the Bird.s of the Mariana Islands, Nov. Zool., 

 v.. p. 54. 



The little Ue Freycinet's Fly-catcher is common in all parts of 

 the island. Upon first hearing the notes of this bird I thought 

 surelv a Bush-tit, by some .strange accident, had arrived on the 



