The Brewster Flycatcher 
i j-i- h--; is 11 5 • «<>u! of devotion from Hie no I to i-hicks are hatched, 
and he has need to be, for they are vonufi. m t a Professor Beal 1 saw 
a nestful of young- Flycatchers fed t-wm limes in a single hour - 
336 times in a day. Expert servio th 1. .. ■■■> lime for tips! 
No doubt the perspiring pa run 1 birds don’t really perspire) 
consider them solve- sufficiently They have a better opinion 
of their youngsters than 1 hate for ■ ; muptious youth, young West¬ 
erns are to me among the most < .- ••••rating. Instead of being tender, 
they implacable. They ha- v : perfection that infantile frown 
which mars the looks of so many ’ birds, giving them an appearance 
of preternatural gravity and c ;■! ■ mess instead of beaming inno¬ 
cence. Would you soothe them wit is a linger—they first bristle, then 
cower. These are bad tokens, fo> a- » a preconcerted signal they burst 
from cover like 1 bevy of pamidi;..-, and hasten to their several fates. 
Ah me! how many a pathway and inm many a summer stroll has been 
saddened by these wayside explosion-- ■ m mature and pitiful, and beyond 
repair! 
No. 37 i 
Brewster’s Flycatcher 
A. 0 . . No. [66. Empi donas trail’i brews reri Oberholser. 
The Empidonax Flycatchers 
3 , . 1 hgh: rir 
out 5 1 e size ; ,1 mcsi.zI d : isk;'; 
wings dusk\ tin: coverts a-to >s.-d inner -rcc-nda-ies broadly tipped with olive or 
•vile o>i\ t-gr-. j mi! iiui i r ting; underparts basallv whitish 
or sordid whitish, the sides of m-rh ; . and the nreast more lightly shaded with 
olive-gray; bully and erissuin, or a; -a , • ks, more or less tinged with pale yellow 
(extreme examples are nearly as heigh- a d :!u His. but others show the barest 
(race of yellow); wing-linings paie yellow, b.-res light gray lo whitish; an inconspicuous 
eye-ring olive-gray. Bill brownish di s lil; • >us (in life) or whitish below; 
iris hazel: feet brownish block. Young birds arc browner above, and have cinnamon- 
bulT\ wing-bands. Length about 139.7 (5.50); wing 70 (2.76); tail 57 (2.25); bill 
12.5 (.40); width at nostril 6 (.24): tarsus 16.5 (.6,5). 
Recognition Marks.— -Warbler size; brownish olive coloration; not so yellow 
below as preceding speed s: brush-haunting habits; note a smart swit' ckoo. 
Nesting- Xs.-.t: A i at her bulky bur neatly turned cup of plant-fibers, bark- 
•chi', pr-tst.. ■ careful!-, lined with line grasses: placed 3 to 10 feet up in crotch of 
bn-1. or sapling of lowland thu-ket or swamp. Eggs: 3 or 4; pale creamy white, 
.-’•-v.ply but sparing!} spotted, chiefly about larger end, with chocolate or dark reddish 
brown. Av. size 17 x 12.95 (.67 x .51). Season: June; one brood. 
R .tnfe of Empidonax trailli .—N >n h America. south in winter to Central America 
and Colombia. 
fowl 
>7 
~)i Our JJore Important 
•calc! -rs Biol. S ir- No. 
58, J012. 
