The Gray Flycatcher 
Of course! How simple! But other good men have fallen into the 
same trap, all unawares, as witness this from the pen of Vernon Bailey 
in the steenth edition of the justly famous “Handbook”: 
“In the Great Basin country wrightii is as much at home in the 
sagebrush as most other species of Empidonax are in shady woods or 
around grassy meadows. His trim little form is often noticed on top of 
a sagebrush by the roadside, sometimes far from water, but more often 
within reach of pond or stream. A favorite place for a nest is in the fork 
of a sage.” 
Grisens is evidently the bird of the open sage, and wrighti is the bird 
of the timbered mountains. 
Now (before going to press) as a last appendix to this chapter of 
science-in-the-making, I add that in June, 1922, the M. C. O. party spent 
two unexpected days with this same “colony” near Mono Craters. By 
some fluke of fortune we had no gun—perhaps we should have been no 
Taken in Mono County Photo by the Author 
A CLOSE-UP OF MRS. GRISEUS 
THE ARTIST HAS TRIED TO IMPROVE THIS NEST BY THE ADDITION OF A SORT OF PATENT WHISKERS, AFTER THE CURIOUS 
FASHION OF HIS KIND 
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