No. 20.] THE BIRDS OF CONNECTICUT. IO3 



Sept. 8, 1906, New Haven, seen (L. B. B.) ; Sept. 15, 1905, 

 Litchfield, one taken (E. S. W.). 



Myiochanes virens (Linnaeus). Wood Pewee. 



A common summer resident of woodlands and shade trees 

 from the latter part of May until late in August. 



Earliest record. New Haven, May 10, 1899; Portland, May 

 6, 1879, 1905. 



Latest record. New Haven, Sept. 30, 1903; Portland, Oct. 

 3, 1890. 



Nest. In an orchard, a shade tree (frequently an elm), or in 

 the woods, about 10 to 20 feet from the ground. 



Eggs. 2-4; the latter part of June. 



Nesting dates. EarHest record. June 8, 1884, one egg (E. 

 H. E.). Latest record. July 12, 1903, three eggs (J. C. A. M.). 



Flying young were seen by J. H. S. and L. B. B. in Salisbury 

 on the unusually early date of June 16, 1904. 



Sets of three eggs each on the same fork of the same limb of 

 a certain tree were found by J. C. A. M., June 16, 1895, June 13, 

 1897, and June 19, 1898, with no nest there in 1896, and all three 

 sets very different in their markings. 



Empidonax flaviventris (W. M. and S. F. Baird). Yellow- 

 bellied Flycatcher, 



A rather rare spring and fall migrant in May, August and 

 September, keeping in secluded nooks in young woodland as it 

 passes through the state. 



Spring migration. Earliest record. New Haven, May 16, 

 1888, 1900. Latest record. May 28, 1909. 



Fall migration. Earliest record. New Haven, Aug. 15, 1907. 

 Latest record, New Haven, Sept. i, 1896, 1906; Sept. 17, 1875 

 (Merriam).i 



At Stamford in late summer this bird is occasionally common, 

 as Mr. Porter secured ten males between Aug. 17 and Sept 26, 

 1893.2 Hoyt took one at Stamford, May 17, 1890, and L. B. B., 

 one, May 25, 1905; Eames, at Stratford, May 7, 1892, and at 

 Bridgeport, May 27, 1892; W. E. T., one at East Hartford, 

 Sept. 20, 1887, and three, May 23, 1892 (in coll. of J. H. S.). 



' Merriam, Birds of Conn., p. 59. 

 *Auk, xii, I, p. 86. 



