376 BIRDS—TYRANNID&. 
Kirtland (1. c.,) and Mr. Kirkpatrick subsequently mentions that he 
found it on the banks of the Rocky River near Cleveland. Mr. Langdon 
gives it as a rare migrant in the vicinity of Cincinnati. In this vicinity 
it arrives about the end of the first week in May, passing northward 
along the margins of streams. It is rather shyer and more restless than 
others of the genus. Its presence is usually made known by a character- 
istic whst-te-ar, which is frequently repeated as the bird flits from bush ~ 
to bush er across a narrow stream. 
It was not known to breed in the state until its nest was discovered by 
me, June 5, 1874. This nest was placed in an elder bush beside a ditch, 
in Thomas’ swamp on the west side of the Olentangy river, near this city. 
It contained four eggs. A few days afterwards, while in company with 
my friend, C. J. Orton, we discovered a nest without eggs ina wild plum 
thicket a short distance from the east bank of the same stream, near 
North Columbus. The next season numerous nests were found in low 
wet grounds, formed by an excavation along the Little Miami Railroad 
between the city and Insane asylum. This locality which was nearly 
amile long by not more than fifty yards wide, proved to be a favorite re- 
gort for these birds for three or four years, and I have found as many as 
half a dozen nests in a couple of how® search. Here their nests were 
usually found in willows from two to eight feet from the ground. One 
or two nests were taken in grape vines, and one in a small tree of 
Enonymus atropurpurea, several in elder bushes. Those built in the acute 
forks of willows were less neat than those in the broader forks of other 
bushes, but all agreed in general character, and were widely different 
from nests of the same birds taken in Northern New Hngland, as also are 
the eggs. 
Mr. Henshaw (1. c.) describes the nests and eggs of this and the pre- 
ceeding species, giving for the first time, a eorrect description of their 
differences as found here. A portion of his article is here inserted: 
‘CT shall briefly describe a neat of Zraillii, one of a series of five, kindly presented by 
Dr. Wheaton, and taken near Columbus, Ohio. 
‘Tt may be fairly compared with the usual structure of the Summer Yellow Warbler 
(Dendreca estiva), so well known to every one, but lacks something of the compactness 
and neatness shown by this species in its method of weaving together the materials that 
make up its home. Hempen fibres compose the exterior, or the bulk of the nest, while 
internally it is lined in true Flycatcher style with fine grasses, and a slight admixture 
of down from thistles; the main point of all, however, is its position with regard to the 
branches. It is built into an upright fork, the small twigs that surround it being made 
available to secure it more firmly in its place by being encircled with the stringy fibres. 
In this particular of position correspond all of the nests of this bird I have seen, as well 
as those of pusillus in the west. 
“Taking now a nest of H. acadicus, and placing it beside the others, a very striking dif- 
