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strongly blended materials, stems of grasses, hempen fibres of plants, bark, 
down-feathers, etc. The walls of the nest are 2 inches thick, and the 
inner nest is warm and soft. 
The eggs of the capitalis before me differ from those of the canadensis , 
but not more than we often find the eggs of the same species differing 
one from the other. The average size of the canadensis is 1.20 X .82, the 
ground is a light gray, and the entire egg is finely marked with points and 
spottings of slate and brown, with faint cloudings of an obscure lilac. 
These markings are but little more numerous and larger about the rounded 
end. The measurements of those before me are 1.19 X .86, 1.16 X .86, 
and 1.10 X .86. Their ground color is a grayish- white. In two the mark- 
ings are all grouped around the larger end, the residue of the surface 
being nearly unmarked. In one the markings are well distributed over 
the entire egg, but larger and confluent at the rounded end. The mark- 
ings are larger, more confluent, and not so distinct and separate as in the 
eggs of the canadensis , and are of a distinct shade of brown. While there 
is an absence of slate and lilac, and while the markings are all of one 
color, there is a tinge of purple shading them all, and the blotches vary 
greatly in the depth and intensity of the shading, from very light to a very 
deep color. The parent accompanying the nest and eggs is a female, 
whose measurements are as follows : Length, 11.60; extent, 17.65; wing, 
5.95; tail, 5.95; tarsus, 1.45; middle toe and claw, 1.15; culmen, .80. — 
T. M. Brewer, Boston , Mass. 
Another Nest of the Yellow-bellied Flycatcher ( Empido - 
nax Jlaviventris). — In view of the seeming inconsistencies in the nesting 
habits of E. jlaviventris , the record of the finding of another nest may be 
of interest. The locality was the Richardson Lakes, Oxford Co., Me.; the 
date, June 18, 1879; and the discovery was very similar to that of the 
nest which I secured last year at Grand Menan, and which is described in 
Vol. Ill, No. 4, of this Bulletin. Mr. Pearsall and myself were collecting in 
a tract of low swampy woods bordering on a stream, when a Yellow-bellied 
Flycatcher flew up from under my feet. An instant’s search revealed the 
nest, when the parent bird was immediately shot. The nest was built in 
the side of a hummock of moss under the roots of a small tree, and was only 
about half covered over, the eggs being clearly visible from the outside. The 
construction, or rather the almost total lack of construction, was similar to 
that of the Grand Menan specimen, as were also the eggs, which were four 
in number and pretty well advanced in incubation. Does not this seem to 
argue something for uniformity in the breeding habits of this bird ? Here 
we have three nests, one taken by Messrs. Purdie and Deane, and two by 
Mr. Pearsall and myself. The locations are quite far apart, viz. Houlton, 
Me., Grand Menan, N. B., and Richardson Lakes, Me. ; and yet the situation 
and make of the nests, as well as the color and markings of the eggs, agree 
perfectly. In both cases which I have recorded the identity was beyond 
