116 Mr. Peabody on the 
gives a very interesting account of a pair, which be- 
came so familiar with his presence, and so well satis- 
fied of his good intentions, that they made no objec- 
tion to his going up to their nest and handling the 
young. He tied threads round the legs of some ; but, 
not having any particular need of garters, they or 
the old ones, always contrived to remove them. He 
then made use of silver thread, which they could not 
displace, and the next year found that some of those 
thus distinguished, had returned to the same spot. 
After an absence of two years, he revisited the spot, 
and found that one of the birds knew him, while 
the other was distrustful and shy. On inquiry, it 
appeared that a boy had killed the female and her 
young, and that the old male had brought home 4 
second wife, who knew nothing of him as a friend 
of the family, while her husband remembered him 
well. Before the country was settled, the phebe, 
no doubt, built its nest on the rocky banks of 
streams; but finding an advantage in acquaintance — — 
with man, it has left its old haunts, when better can 
be found. 
The Otive-sipep Fry-carcueR, Muscicapa Coo- 
perii, is described by Nuttall, who first discovered 
and gave it a name. He says that it is doubtless 
the same with the M. borealis of Richardson, though 
he became acquainted with it before the publication :: 
of the * Northern Zoology." The nest of this bird 
-is said to resemble that of the king-bird, and the E 
eggs, those of the wood pewee. Aud ubon confirms i 
dtm fact that this bird is found in Massachusetts, but 
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