204 BIRDS OF NEW ENGLAND AND EASTERN NEW YORK 



but occurs in New England only as an accidental visitor. 

 It arrives in May, and generally leaves in August. It fre- 

 quents woodland and orchards, especially in the neighbor- 

 hood of small streams. The sharp call-note, queep, and the 

 song, which Bendire writes ivick-icp' and Chapman pee-e- 

 yuk', are characteristic ; these notes, the larger size, and 

 the bulFy wing-bars distinguish the Green-crested from the 

 Least Flycatcher. 



Yellow-bellied Flycatcher. Empidonax flaviventris 



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Ad. — Dark olive-green above; wing-bars whitish; entire under 

 parts yellowish, brightest on the belly, shaded with olive on throat, 

 breast, and sides. 



Nest, sunk in mossy bank, or " among the earth-laden roots of 

 a fallen tree " (Brewster). Eggs, white, marked with reddish- 

 brown, chiefly at the larger end. 



The Yellow-bellied Flycatcher is a rare migrant in eastern 

 New England, and, like the Alder Flycatcher, appears very 

 late in May or early in June, and again in August and early 

 September. In western New England and in the Hudson 

 Valley it is not rare, but it is often silent and of a retiring 

 disposition, frequenting low woods and swampy places. On 

 the higher Catskills and the mountains of northern New 

 England and in the great spruce forests of ]\Iaine, where 

 the ground is deep with a feathery moss (Hypnum), the 

 Yellow-bellied Flycatcher is a fairly common resident. 

 Here, too, it is shy and retiring, but its notes differ from 

 those of the other small Flycatchers, and assist in its iden- 

 tification. Its call-note is like the syllables ti-pee'-a, and 

 resembles closely a note of the Wood Pewee ; its absurd 

 little song, like the syllables 'pe-ivick, is uttered almost as a 

 monosyllable. 



Its great similarity in appearance to the other little fly- 

 catchers, the Least and the Alder, should make a student 



