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wht" coming from the higher limbs of a tree in the woods. It is a 

 last year's friend. A step into the clearing will show him on the dead 

 limb of a dying sugar.tree. A second time he greets one, and another 

 name is added to the list of axriYals. It is the Crested Flycatcher. 

 There is a hole, whether made by Woodpeckers I can not tell, in the 

 top of the old forest guardian, where it sits. There it had a nest last 

 year, and purposes to use it again this. Such is the site it prefers, but 

 it is not extremely particular in that regard. Dr. Haymond once 

 showed me a hollow apple tree limb where one nested in a busy part 

 of town. 



Crested Flycatcher. (Reduced.) 



j\lr. T. H. Barton found a nest containing 3 eggs in a half -gallon 

 tin can along a garden fence, in town, one spring. Almost every nest 

 found contains more or less of the cast-off skin of a snake. Both sexes 

 assist in nest-building, in which they use leaves, grass, weeds, bark, 

 rootlets and feathers. The female does most of the sitting, which re- 

 quires about fifteen days. One egg is laid daily. But one brood is 

 reared yearly. They are very noisy at mating time. Afterwards the 

 noise grows less through June, and in July fails. Occasionally it is 

 heard before leaving. September 1, 1897, I found one uttering its 

 usual call, but not so emphatically as when a gay and careless bird, in 

 May. They leave through August and September. The following 

 are dates when they were last seen: Sedan, Ind., August' 21, 1893; 

 August 30, 1887; September 9, 1895; Bicknell, Ind., September 7, 

 1890, September 18, 1895, September 21, 1894; Warren County, Sep- 

 tember 18, 1897; Brookville, August 39, 1887, September 3, 188(>. 



