1902 
July 15 
¥p^ of 
Mylarchus 
with young 
Bats in 
shed at 
the Farm 
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On J\ine 21st I found the nest of the Oreat-crested 
Flycatcher at the Farm, in the hollow branch of a small wild 
apple tree. The light was poor and I could not see into the 
cavity yery well but the nest looked unfinished and, indeed, 
seemed to consist merely of a shapeless mass of dry grass. 
As I saw one of the birds fly to it, bearing a ripe cherry in 
her bill, I concluded, however, that there must be young. 
It seems that I was badly mistaken, for on visiting the nest 
this afternoon I found that it was neatly lined with a pro¬ 
fusion of feathers and contained four or five yo\ing which 
could not have been more than a fev; days old as they were 
very small and only just beginning to show a scanty covering 
of pinfeathers. The old birds were neither seen nor heard 
on this occasion. 
There were no less than eighteen Bats in the shed 
at the farm-house this afternoon. G-lover M, Allen who was 
with me identified them as the Large Brown Bat ( Eptesicus 
fuscu s). He caught several of them, but they made no 
attempt to bite him. Many of them were young, some of which 
were clinging to their mothers, none of the old females 
having more than two each and some only one. About half the 
total number present on this occgsion were collected in a 
cluster, the others being scattered about singly, something 
which I have never observed in this shed before. 
