I02 CONNECTICUT GEOL. AND NAT. HIST. SURVEY. [Bull. 



1898, 1907; Hartford, March 13, 1898 ;i Jewett City, March 15, 

 1902.^ 



Latest record. New Haven, Oct. 18, 1904, Oct. 26, 1906 

 (E. S. W.) ; Portland, Oct. 14, 1891, 1893. 



Winter records. New Haven, Dec. 25, 1909 (D. B. P., C. H. 

 P., and A. W. H.) ; one seen, Dec. 21, 1905 — March 10, 1906, 

 and Nov. 25, 1906 — Jan. 22, 1907 (A. A. S.). 



Nest. On the pillar of a porch, the rafter of a shed, inside 

 an abandoned house, in the cellar of a barn, under a bridge, on 

 a ledge of rocks, under the overhanging edge of a bank, or in 

 the vipturned roots of a tree; nest of mud and moss, lined with 

 horse-hair. 



Eggs. 3-6 ; early in May. 



Nesting dates. Earliest record. April 27, 1898, five eggs 

 (L. B. B.). Latest record. July 10, 1882, six eggs (C. L. R.).^ 



Nests are occasionally placed in abandoned nests of the Bam 

 Swallow, while one containing five eggs was found placed in an 

 old Robin's nest on a girder in a barn. May 15, 1893, in Trumbull 

 (Beers). 



An unusual nesting site was noted by W. W. C, Portland, 

 on " a brace under the guards of the steam ferry-boat running 

 [at that time] between Middletown and Portland."^ This nest 

 was seen by J. H. S. 



Nuttallornis borealis (Swainson). Olive-sided Flycatcher. 



A rare spring and fall migrant in late May and September. 



Spring records. May 24, 1892, New Haven, male taken 

 (Hedges, in coll. of L. B. B.) ; May 24, 1893, New Haven, female 

 taken (A. H. V.) ; May 23, 1900, May 23, 1902, and May 19, 

 1909, Ne^v Haven, two taken, another seen (L. B. B.). 



Fall records. Aug. 5, 1874, Suffield, male taken (Shores) ;* 

 Oct. 18, 1875, New Haven, one seen (Merriam) ;* Aug. 27, 1903, 

 Danbury, young female taken, and pair with three young seen 

 several times during summer of 1903 (Hamlin) ; Sept. 13, 1904, 

 New Haven, young female taken (L. B. B.) ; Aug. 31, 1904, 



1 Bird-Lore, x, s, p. 210. 



» O. and O., xvii, S, pp. 77-8. 



' O. and O., vii, 23, p. 183. 



* Merriam, Birds of Conn., p. 53. 



