The Spotted Flycatcher. I15 
with moss and small pieces of dried blades of grass, 
lined with warm materials; the number of eggs being 
Uswaliyemves =. this bird, oiten takes a fancy to 
another place for its nest, even after it has begun to 
build the first; standard pear and apple trees and 
other places might be mentioned, but I consider the 
wall covered with rough-barked foliage its favourite 
spot for nesting. 
After the young have left the nest, they soon attain 
the habits of the old birds, and can catch their food 
with great ease. Though these birds seem to have a 
fancy for nesting near the habitation of man, when 
the young can take care of themselves they are more 
often seen on naked boughs of trees, or clumps of 
trees where cattle are in the habit of reclining from 
fhiewm@ede oy the sun, darting from their pereh, and 
snapping the flies around, thereby relieving the cattle 
of a great nuisance. 

