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conspicuous on account of its bright 
color and lively, noisy ways. 
He is never found in the woods but 
is very abundant on the coffee fincas 
and pastures, where he sits on .some 
prominent tree ever and anon diving 
off after a gnat. His cry, which sounds 
like cha-tee-a, with the accent on the 
middle syllable, (his Mexican name by 
the way), repeated rapidly .several 
times, can be heard from morning till 
night all the j’ear round. He has an- 
other little note, “weet”, which is uttered 
or three hundred yards would come to 
swell the tumult, while at other times 
the female would leave the nest silently 
on my approach and not a .sign of a 
flycatcher could be detected while tak- 
ing the nest. 
The nest is a bulky affair measuring 
on an average nine inches in length, 
five in height and five inches wide, be- 
ing well roofed wdth the opening toward 
one end, fronting down. This is shown 
in the accompanying plate. The ne.st 
is composed of dry grass, shreds of plan- 
Photo by C. Barlmv, 
Ne.st .VND Eggs of Giraud’s Fevcatcher {Myiozetetes texensis). 
(The opening of the roofed nest at one end, fronting down, is shown). 
while he is ])erched, watching for flies. 
These flycatchers are agressive little 
fellows. 1 have seen them chasing 
turke}' buzzards and sparrowhawks 
which happened to come their waju 
Sometimes when I have been taking 
their nests they would make the most 
terrible disturbance, flying at me and 
making a great racket. Not only the 
outraged pair, but as many as eight 
birds that were within a radius of two 
tain and banana leaves, with cottony 
material interwoven. 
Giraud’s Flycatcher is not particular 
in selecting a nesting site, almost any 
place from which a good view can be 
obtained, suiting him. I have found 
nests ranging from four feet to thirty 
feet in height, in low bushy trees alnucst 
but not quite hidden as the birds build 
on the outside or top of a tree, and in 
almo.st bare trees in high and conspicu- 
