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is the most numerous. They have much the same general habits 

 and often associate intimately together; indeed, I have known one 

 tree to contain nests of both species. The cries of verticalis are 

 louder and harsher, with less of a sibilant quality, than those of the 

 kingbird; but there is little else to note as different. The nests of 

 the verticalis are bulky and conspicuous, all the more easily found 

 because the bird has a way of leaving the general woods of the river 

 bottom to go up to the ravines that make down from the hillsides, 

 and there nest on some isolated tree, miles away, perhaps, from anv 

 landmark. Taking nests of both species at the same time, I found 

 that those of verticalis were generally distinguishable by their larger 

 size and softer make, with less fibrous and more fluffy material ; but 

 the eggs, if mixed together, could not be separated with anj- cer- 

 tainty. The sets of eggs taken during the latter part of June con- 

 sisted of from three to six. Eggs were found as late as the second 

 week of July. The nests were placed in trees at a height of from five 

 or six to forty or fifty feet, generally in the crotch of a horizontal 

 limb, at some distance from the main trunk; but in one case a nest 

 was placed in the crotch which the first large bough made with the 

 trunk.' In one case a pair of the flycatchers built in the same tree 

 that contained the nest of Swainson's buzzard, and both kinds of 

 birds were incubating at peace with each other, if not with all the 

 world, when I came along to disturb them. In another one they 

 nested with a pair of kingbirds. The birds display admirable ' 

 courage in defence of their homes, losing in their anxiety all sense 

 of danger to themselves. {Coues.) 



CLXXXV. MYIARCHUS Cabanis. 1844. 



452. Crested Flycatcher. 



Myiarchtcs crinitus (LiNN.) Licht. 1854. 



Have observed this species at Scotch Lake, York co., N.B., in 

 August; they seemed to be migrating in famiUes. {W. H. Moore.) 

 Taken near Woodstock, N.B., by Mr. Purdie, in 1878. (Chamber- 

 lain.) Rare summer resident in woods near Quebec. {Dionne.) 

 Common summer resident in the district of Montreal. (Wintle.) 

 A common summer resident in the Ottawa district. (Ottawa 

 Naturalist, Vol. V.) Regular migrant and summer resident at 

 Toronto, Ont. Reported as common at Beaumaris, on May 12th, 



