224 MEMOIRS OP THE NUTTALL ORNITHOLOGICAL CLUB. 



ii8. Myiarchus crinitus (Linn.). 

 Crested Flycatcher. Great Crested Flycatcher. 



Rare summer resident. 



SEASONAL occurrence. 



May 9, 1889, one seen, Arlington, W. Faxon. 



May 15 — September i. 

 September 26, 1897, one seen, Arlington, W. Faxon. 



.NESTING date. 



June 26, 1900, nest> and five eggs,' Waltham, W. Brewster and O. A. Lothrop. 



Although the noisy and quarrelsome but, nevertheless, interesting Crested 

 Flycatcher breeds commonly in Canton, only about twelve miles south of Boston, 

 it is one of the rarer summer birds in Middlesex County. My notes record 

 only three instances of its occurrence in the Cambridge Region between 

 1865 and 1885, but during the past ten or twelve years from one to two or three 

 pairs have been met with here nearly every season, usually in old apple orchards 

 in Belmont or Arlington. In 1894 a nest with eggs was taken by a boy in 

 Gray's Woods, Cambridge, and on June 26, 1900, Mr. O. A. Lothrop showed me 

 another, containing five fresh eggs, built in a hollow branch of an apple tree 

 not far from Sherman's Pond, Waltham. 



On August 31, 1 88 1, a Crested Flycatcher visited the grounds (adjoining 

 our own) at the rear of Mr. Charles Theodore Russell's house on Sparks Street, 

 where it remained until September 3. I frequently heard it calling, especially 

 in the early morning and about sunset, but it kept closely concealed among the 

 foliage of the large apple trees, which evidently afforded it a safe and congenial 

 retreat. Another bird, seen in our garden on May 15, 1900, and again on the 

 following day, by Mr. Walter Deane, continued perfectly silent during its entire 

 stay. It was rather shy, although, when no one was in sight, it spent much of 

 its time perched on the topmost twig of an isolated cherry tree. These two 

 instances are the only ones known to me of the occurrence of the Crested 

 Flycatcher in any of the more densely populated parts of Cambridge. 



'No. 3898, collection of William Brewster. 



