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shape, and of a beautiful rosy-white tint, well spotted with a light 
reddish shade of brown. They closely resemble the eggs of E. 
difficilis I have from California, and other sets of eggs of that bird 
I have lately seen. The nest and contents are now in Mr. Deane’s 
collection. It will be seen that the whole affair was not unlike 
the descriptions given of the nest and eggs of E. difficilis by Dr. J. 
G. Cooper of Haywood, Cal. 
The nests and eggs mentioned by Dr. Brewer differ so much from 
those here described that it seems reasonable to suppose that there 
was some error of identification in the nests found by him as cited 
above, so great is the variation presented between his nests and 
eggs and ours ; for it seems hardly probable that this Flycatcher 
should be so very inconstant, both as to the materials and situa- 
tion of the nest, and as to whether it lays spotted or unspotted 
eggs. In the National Museum at Washington there are three sets 
of eggs accredited to E. ffaviventris. The eggs of one of these sets 
are spotted, those of the other two are not, and these latter are 
strongly suggestive of those of the Least Flycatcher ; so write me 
Messrs. Robert Ridgway and H. W. Henshaw. 
As no accounts of the breeding of E. difficilis have yet appeared 
in any ornithological works, the following references to the nesting 
habits may be useful : Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., Yol. YI, p. 199, Dec., 
1875; Am. Nat., Yol. X, p. 93, Feb., 1876; The Naturalist and 
Fancier, Grand Rapids, Mich., Yol. I, p. 43, Nov., 1877. 
A LIST OF BIRDS OBSERYED AT COOSADA, CENTRAL 
ALABAMA. 
BY NATHAN CLIFFORD BROWN. 
Coosada is a little station on the North and South Alabama 
Railroad, ten miles north of Montgomery. The population, consist- 
ing of planters and their attendant negroes, is sparse, and nowhere 
attains sufficient density to produce a regular village. The country 
is rather flat, occasionally rolling slightly, and in its uncultivated 
portions is mostly covered with a dense growth of pines of various 
species. There are a few dry groves of oak and “ black jack,” but 
the hard-wood trees are principally confined to the creek bottoms 
and margins of swamps, where they flourish in the typical Southern 
luxuriance and variety, interspersed with cane and overrun by 
