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Photo by Prof. M. J. Elrod. 
Nest of Knipidonax wrightii. 
feathers, the latter being worked into 
the walls so that their soft extremities 
project into the cavity and curl warmly 
along the upper portions of the wall. 
The eggs have a ground of grayish 
white color, marked chiefly at the larger 
end with specks and irregular dots of 
blackish and dark reddish brown, one 
or two having a suggestion of the 
wreath-like formation in the markings. 
It is worth while to mention that 
during the next three da 3 's I searched 
the entire swamp woods extending 
between the mouth of Swan River and 
Flathead River, a space of nearly three 
miles, over which the willow growth 
averaged a width of three hun- 
dred \-ards, and it seemed to me that 
every separate tree was 
closely scanned, but no 
other evidence of Dendroi- 
ca audhboni wrs found in 
that loc'dity ; hence I aver- 
red that Luck was a pre- 
dominating factor in the 
finding thus lengthil}’ re- 
corded. 
Along the landward 
margin of the willow 
swamp mentioned in the 
foregoing description, 
there was a thick growth 
of bushes and small ever- 
green trees, consequent 
upon the lumberman’s ad- 
vent into the neighbor- 
hood. Between the swamp 
and the bushes, I managed 
to while away many a June 
day, and to pick up some 
finds which, though not 
important to the advanced 
collectors, were very inter- 
esting to one who was 
spending his first summer 
in Montana. How I pity 
those advanced collectors, 
who long ago lost all 
pleasure in the common 
friends cf the woodland, 
and now find their only 
solace in a’s, b’s, c’s, 
etc., or the oological findings of the far- 
off islands of the sea. But to resume: 
It was along the bushy margin of the 
swamp-woods that I first had the pleas- 
ure of meeting E)i!pidoiiaxzvrightiiJia\rd.y 
which advanced collectors will readily 
recognize^ as the cognomen of Wright’s 
Fh’catcher. I was prying around the 
clumps of maple sprouts alternating 
with the fir thickets, when a little fly- 
catcher flitted from a nest in an upright 
crotch in the periphery of the clump. 
The nest was only five feet from the 
ground, and by standing on a prostrate 
log 1 could easily peep into the cozj' 
structure. At a glance I knew that the 
four creamy white eggs were strange to 
me, and I began to look again for the 
