PERCHING BIRDS 
460. Coues’s Flycatcher. Myiochanes pertinax pallidiventris. 
Range. — Western Mexico, breeding north to central Arizona. 
This Flycatcher builds one of the most artistic nests created by feathered 
creatures. It bears some resemblance on the exterior to that of the next species, 
but it is much more firmly made, and the walls are usually 
higher, making a very deeply cupped interior. The outside 
of the nest is made of fibres, cobwebs, catkins, etc., firmly 
felted together and ornamented with green lichens to match 
the limb upon which it is saddled. The interior is heavily 
lined with dried, yellowish grasses, making a very strong con- 
trast to the exterior. They are fairly abundant birds in the 
ranges of southern Arizona, where they nest generally during 
June. They lay three eggs of a rich creamy color, spotted and blotched, chiefly 
about the larger end, with reddish brown and lilac gray. Size .95 x .61. Data. — 
Huachuca Mts., Arizona, July 8, 1897. 3 eggs. Nest in a yellow pine about 60 
feet up and near the extremity of a long slender limb. Elevation 7000 feet. 
Collector, O. W. Howard. 
Cream color 
46l. Wood Pewee. Myiochanes virens. 
Range. — North America, east of the Plains 
and north to Ihe southern parts of the British 
Provinces. Winters south of the United States. 
This is one of the best 
known and one of the most 
common frequenters of open 
woods, where all summer 
long its pleasing notes may 
be heard, resembling “Pee-a- 
wee” or sometimes only two 
syllables “pee-wee.” They 
nest on horizontal limbs at elevations of six 
feet or over, making handsome nests of plant 
fibres and fine grasses, covered on the exterior 
with lichens; they are quite shallow and very 
much resembles a small knot on the limb of 
the tree. They lay three or four eggs of a 
ceram color spotted in a wreath about the 
large end, with reddish brown and lavender; 
size .80 x .55. Data. — Torrington, Conn., June 
16, 1890. Nest of fibres covered with lichens, 
saddled on the branch of an oak tree near 
roadside. Collector, John Gath. 
Cream color 
Wood Pewee 
