Western Bird Guide: Birds of the Rockies and West to the Pacific

by Charles K. Reed

BLACK PHŒBE.

458. Sayornis nigricans. 7 inches.

Slightly smaller than the above, and much darker, almost black on the head and back with white under parts. Their habits are very much the same as above, frequenting old buildings in villages where a stream is near by, or in localities where insect life abounds. Their nest is made the same as above, and eggs are the same.