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Mr. E. Adams on the Birds of Michalaski. 
Black cap Titmouse. Barns atricapillus, Linn. 
Chik-a-ki-perc, Eski. 
[Barns atricapillus, Dali & Bann. p. 280.] 
A few Black-cap Tits were to be seen all the winter about 
the patches of dwarf birch and willow on the hill-sides. I 
could not learn that they breed here^ nor did I see any during 
the summer; but they probably remain all the year. 
The Yellow Wagtail. Motacilla flava, Linn. 
[Budytes jlava, Dali & Bann. p. 277 ; Baird; tom. cit. 
p.312.] 
This beautiful bird makes its appearance in the beginning 
of June^ and very soon commences to build. I found a few 
on the 5th of June^ which were feeding about the tops of 
some willow-bushes^ and in the marsh near them. On the 
12th I found the first nest; it was placed amongst the grass 
on the steep bank of a ravine, in a small hollow, so that the 
nest was completely embedded in earth. It was lined with 
bents and hair. It contained six eggs, of a pale brownish 
white colour, rather darker at the large end, where there 
were a few faint streaks of brown. I afterwards found other 
nests placed in similar situations. 
American Barn-Swallow. Hirnndo a mericana^ Wilson. 
Jo-ln-kar-ndr-nk^ Eski. 
[Hirnndo horreorum, Barton; Dali & Bann. p, 279.] 
Early on the morning of the 31st of Alay, 1851, eight or 
ten of these birds arrived at Michalaski. I had been vrander- 
ing about the neighbourhood the whole of the previous day, 
and did not meet with one of them ; so that they must have 
journeyed in a flock. They immediately set to work about 
repairing their old nests, which were placed in an old out¬ 
house, under the eaves of the buildings, and in some of the loop¬ 
holes for musketry in the block-houses. When they find a 
horizontal surface on which to build, the nest is always very 
slight and shallow; but those under the eaves are large 
and well built, very much resembling those of Hirnndo 
nrhica, but open at the top. There were so many old nests 
that very few of them built new ones, merely repairing and 
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