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Umbagog), and Prof. Charles E. Hamlin also observed it, in Ken- 

 nebec Comity, in the same State.* Dr. W. H. Gregg found that it 

 was "not a very common species" near Elmira, Chemung Co., south- 

 ern New York, " where he met with only two specimens during sev- 

 eral years of bird collecting."! In central Ohio it is, according to the 

 high authority of Dr. J. M. Wheaton, a "rare migrant.''^ The 

 record of its occurrence in the east, south of New Jersey, is not well 

 authenticated. My friend, Mr. E. P. Bicknell, informs me that he 

 has taken several specimens "and saw six or seven individuals be 

 tween August 21st and Sept. 26rh, 1876, at Riverdale, Westchester 

 Co., N. Y. 



Now, on the other hand, on going northward, we find it breeding 

 at Randolph, Vermont (Chas. S. Paine),§ and Mr. Osborne has seen 

 it about Mt. Washington. "Audubon found it in Maine, on the 

 Magdeline Islands, and on the coast of Labrador,"! as mentioned by 

 Dr. Brewer, who further states that "Mr. Boardman reports the 

 Olive-sided Flycatcher as having of late years been very abundant 

 during the summer in the dead woods about the lakes west of Calais 

 [eastern Maine] where formerly they were quite uncommon," and 

 that he is informed by Mr. Boy "that this species used to be 

 quite common near Racine [Wisconsin], frequenting the edges of 

 thick woods, where they nested." 



From the above references it will be seen that the Olive-sided 

 Flycatcher belongs, in the east, to the Canadian fauna, while it occa 

 sionally extends down into the Alleghanian, and, if Cooper's record 

 can be relied on, stragglers have been known to breed in the Caroli- 

 nian. Going westward, however, the case is quite different, and we 

 find Contopus borealis breeding in numbers from the "Cumberland 

 House, on the Saskatchewan, in latitude 54°,"!" where it was obtained 

 by Sir John Richardson, ami described by Swainson in 1831 (this 

 description having priority over Nuttall's, which was not published 

 till 1833), to Camj) Bowie, Arizona, latitude 32°, " within one hundred 

 miles of Mexico," where both "young and old were secured in 



* Report Sect. Maine Board Agriculture, p. 170, 1865. 



f Catalogue of the Birds of Chemung Co., N. Y., by W. H. Gregg, M.D. From 

 Proceed. Elmira Academy of Sciences, 1S70. 



% The Food of Birds as related to Agriculture, by J. M. Wheaton, M.D. Prom 

 Ohio Agricultural Report, p. 8, 1874. 



§ Appendix to Zadock Thompson's History of Vermont, p. 21. 1853. 



|| History N. Am. Birds, Baird, Brewer and Ridgway, vol. ii, p. 354. 



TT Coues, Birds of the Northwest, p. 244. 1874. 



