170 Birds Every Child Should Know 
■departs the instant an insect flies within Sight! 
With a cheerful, sudden sally in mid-air, • it 
snaps up the luscious bite, for it can be quite as 
active as any of the family. While not so 
ready to be neighbourly as the phoebe, the 
pewee condescends to visit our orchards and 
shade trees. 
When nesting time comes, it looks for a partly 
decayed, lichen-covered branch, and on to this 
saddles a compact, exquisite cradle of fine 
grass, moss and shreds of bark, binding bits of 
lichen with spiders’ web to the outside until 
the sharpest of eyes are needed to tell the 
stuccoed nest from the limb it rests on. Only 
the tiny hummingbird, who also uses lichen as 
a protective and decorative device, conceals 
her nest so successfully. 
LEAST FLYCATCHER 
Called also: Chebec 
It is not until he calls out his name, Chebec! 
Chebec! in clear and business-like tones from 
some tree-top that you could indentify this 
fluffy flycatcher, scarcely more than five inches 
long, whose dusky coat and light vest offer no 
helpful markings. Not a single gay feather 
relieves his sombre suit. Isn’t this a queer, 
^uakerly taste for a bird that spends half his life 
