Breeding of Traill’s Flycatcher in Eastern Massachusetts.- — On 
June 18, 1895, I took a set of four eggs of Traill’s Flycatcher in Lynn- 
field, a small town twelve miles north of Boston. On various occasions 
earlier in the month I had seen Traill’s Flycatchers in a bushy meadow 
and the actions of individual birds led me to believe that one and perhaps 
two pairs of this species were intending to breed. 
On June 16 I searched for a nest and soon found one with three eggs. 
The following morning there were four eggs. On neither occasion was 
a bird seen at the nest but on the morning of the 17th one of the Traill’s 
Flycatchers flew about in the neighboring bushes and complained. On 
the afternoon of June 18 I went to the nest in company with Messrs. 
E. H. Forbush and C. E. Bailey. As on previous occasions, the bird 
was not on the nest. Mr. Bailey ensconced himself in the bushes and 
after an hour’s wait shot one of the Flycatchers. The bird came near 
the nest and drove away a Maryland Yellow-throat, and then after an 
interval appeared again and lit on the nest and looked at the eggs. A 
moment later Mr. Bailey shot her. This bird is now in the collection 
of Mr. Wm. Brewster. 
The nest is a typical Traill’s, being constructed of fine grasses and 
neatly lined. The body of the nest is a quite compact and well-made 
structure but there is a lot of loose odds and ends in the shape of long, 
grasses stringing down from the outside of the nest. 
The eggs, four in number, and very slightly incubated, are white 
with reddish spots (nearly flesh-colored), these being principally at the 
larger end and forming a slight ring. The nest was three and a half 
feet from the ground and in a small wild rose-bush. The locality is a 
bushy meadow, the growth being principally alder, young maple, white 
cedar and wild rose-bushes. — J. A. Farley, Newton, Mass. 
