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ming Bird, or to that of the Blue-Gray Flycatcher. It is 
not a “little” nest in view of the relative size of the bird, 
and we never saw one that was ever covered on the out- 
side with lichen. With us this bird, so far as the writer 
knows, never builds its nest until as late as the middle of 
July, and never raises more than a single brood in one 
season. 3 
To the question: To what bird did the nest described 
by Wilson as that of the Goldfinch belong? we will in 
Yankee fashion reply by asking another. Could he by 
any possibility have had in view the nest and eggs of 
the Polioptila cærulea? This is what Wilson says in 
regard to the nest and egg of this last-named bird: “It 
arrives in Pennsylvania, from the South, about the middle 
of April, and about the middle of May builds its nest, 
which it generally fixes among the twigs of a tree, some- 
times at the height of ten feet from the ground, some- 
times fifty feet high, on the extremities of the top of a 
high tree in ie woods. This nest is formed of very 
slight and perishable materials, the husks of buds,- 
stems of old leaves, withered blossoms of leaves, down : 
frail EG which one would think haii E 
fo. admit the id of the owner, and sustain even ° 
