. Bird lore . e material consist-ing of strings, cotton, three kinds of cloth, a long piece of narrow tape, some knitgoods, a piece of linen, feathers, dried grass, rootlets and heads of several kindsof composite flowers. Inside of this skeleton was a fine meshwork of rootletscompletely lining the coarser material; inside of this was a layer of rather coarsegrasses, and in this on the bottom of the nest were a few horsehairs. Thus therewere four distinct lavers, the coarse material on the outside, the net of rootlets, 76 Bird-Lore the laver of grass stems and the scattering of hairs. Other nes
. Bird lore . e material consist-ing of strings, cotton, three kinds of cloth, a long piece of narrow tape, some knitgoods, a piece of linen, feathers, dried grass, rootlets and heads of several kindsof composite flowers. Inside of this skeleton was a fine meshwork of rootletscompletely lining the coarser material; inside of this was a layer of rather coarsegrasses, and in this on the bottom of the nest were a few horsehairs. Thus therewere four distinct lavers, the coarse material on the outside, the net of rootlets, 76 Bird-Lore the laver of grass stems and the scattering of hairs. Other nests found in thevicinitv agreed in having this fine network of rootlets as one of the middlelayers. The feature of special interest about the nest was the large amount of suchmaterial as strings, pieces of cloth, etc., as suggesting that much may be doneto induce birds to nest around our houses by exposing in appropriate placesduring the nesting season such materials as birds are found to use in nest MALLARD ON NESTPhotographed by George Shiras 3d The Migration of Flycatchers THIRD PAPER Compiled by Professor W. W. Cooke, Chiefly from Datain the Biological Survey With drawings by Louis Agassiz Fuertes and Bruce Horsfall HAMMONDS FLYCATCHER Wintering south of the United States, this species returned to the CatalinaMountains, Arizona, March 31, 1885, and to Los Angeles, California, April 9,1896. It does not breed at either of these localities, and the last bird in the springwas seen at the former place May 10, and at the latter, May 9. The first recordfor Okanagan Landing, B. C, is May 14, 1906, and at Glacier, Alaska, June8, 1899. The first fall migrants were noted in the Huachuca Mountains, Arizona,August 26, and the last, in the Catalina Mountains, Arizona, October 25. Thelatest record at Los Angeles, California, is October 30, 1897. WRIGHTS FLYCATCHER A few Wrights Flycatchers winter in southern California and move northin April, arriving in southern British Columb
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