SMALL GREEN-CRESTED FLYCATCHER. ?,x\ 



the under parts yellowish-white, with an ashy tinge on the 

 sides and across the breast; tail and wings dusky; the bars 

 across the latter, as also the margins of the secondaries and 

 tertiaries, the eye-lids and feathers about the flank, light 

 greenish-yellow; feet and upper mandible, deep brown or 

 dusky; under mandible, pale — this bird is of pleasing ap- 

 pearance — a sprightly and cheerful ornament of the forest. 

 There is nothing about it which wins our sympathy, how- 

 ever, as do the sweet plaintive notes and the elegant nest 

 of the Wood Pewee. 



Its nest, rather loose and rustic, is quite unique. Placed 

 rather low, perhaps from five to nine feet from the ground, 

 generally on the limb of a small evergreen, sometimes in a 

 small hard-wood tree, it is loosely hung by the sides to a 

 more or less fork-shaped part of the limb. Some three 

 inches or more in external diameter, and some two inches 

 or more through, it is loosely, even raggedly, woven of the 

 fine spray of the hemlock, interspersed with grasses and 

 some fibrous bark, or principally of fine grasses interspersed 

 ■with the hemlock spray and bits of bark-fiber, more or less 

 fastened together throughout with a fine webby or downy 

 material, which also binds it to the forked limb; and it is 

 ornamented with the bud-scales of the beech, and some- 

 times with its dried stamenate blossoms. The inside, some 

 two inches across and rather more than one inch in depth, 

 is lined with fine hemlock spray, or fine grasses, or both; if 

 principally of the latter, it has a light feathery appear- 

 ance. It is always so loosely made that one can see through 

 it. 



The eggs, about .75 X .50, are cream color, and sparsely 

 specked or spotted with brown about the larger end or half. 

 The female sits very closely; sometimes she can be caught 

 in the hand, if one creeps stealthily under the nest; some- 



