THE TRAII.L FLYCATCHER. 



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bush or sapling of lowland thicket or swamp. Eggs, 3 or 4, not certainly dis- 

 tinguishable from those of preceding species. Av. size, .70 x .54 (17.8 x 13.7). 



General Range. — Western North America from the Mississippi Valley 

 (Ohio, Illinois, and Michigan) to the Pacific and from the Fur Countries south 

 into Mexico. 



Range in Ohio. — Locally common summer resident. Found in willows and 

 alders of swamps. 



EARLY in June your morning walk along the river bank is likely to be 

 interrupted by an imperative szvee-chee, issuing from the top of a hackberry 

 sapling hard by. This bird sits uneasily upon her perch and appears anxious, 

 worried. Only dire extremity, you may be sure, could induce her to ven- 

 ture so near this unknown monster, man. Szvee-chee, she challenges again, 

 and then amazed at her 

 own temerity, vanishes 

 into the thicket to be 

 seen no more. 

 There is a nest 

 near, but the 

 owner has done 

 her duty in pro- 

 claiming the 

 fact, and she 

 will not lead 

 further in the 

 search. At 

 about the level 

 of your head in 

 some willow or 

 alder clump, or 

 mayhap in a 

 hackberry like 

 the one upon 

 which she sat, 

 you will find a 

 neat, substan- 

 tial cup of hemp 

 and grasses, 

 bound tightly to 

 an upright fork. 

 The nest might 

 have been a 



Taken at the Lickl}ig Kcs> 



A WELL-BUILT CUr. 



NEST AND EGGS OF THE 

 TRAILL FLYCATCHER. 



