, Traill's Flycatcher. 
ArtiMppm, Mass , 
I strongly suspect that Traill's Flycatcher breeds here. You 
perhaps remember that a few years ago I found in full song in Pur- 
gatory Swamp , Dedham, on the 23d and the 28th of June — both times 
in the same spot. What was my surprise to find one this year in 
just the same place about the end off May. Further, on the 3rd of 
one 
this month I discovered in East Lexington in an ideal breeding-placs 
A 
(alder arid willow-lined banks of Mill Brook). Of course I supposed 
him to be a transient, but there he has stayed ever since and is 
still singing in the same place. By the grossest piece of bad 
fortune the land is owned by a two-legged brute with a dog, big 
stick, and a foul mouth — perfectly insane in his unreasonableness. 
We are cat off from a chance to search for the nest. 
Walter Faxon (letter June II, 1894) 
