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The upper parts, with sides of the head and neck, oHve-green ; the crown very little if 

 auy darker. A yellowish-white ring round the eye. The sides of the body under the 

 wings like the back, but fainter olive; a tinge of the same across the breast; the chin, 

 throat, and middle of the belly white; the abdomen, lower tail and wing coverts, and 

 sides of the body not covered by the wings, pale greenisli-yollow. Edges of the first 

 primary, secondaries, and tertials margined with dull j'ellowish-white, most broadly on 

 the latter. Two transvei-se bands of pale yellowish (sometimes with an ochrey tinge) 

 across the wings, formed by the tips of the secondary and primary coverts, succeeded by 

 a brown one. Tail light brown, margined externally like the back. Upper mandible 

 light brown above ; pale yellow beneath. In autumn the lower parts are more yellow. 

 Length, 5.6.5; wing, 3.00; tail, 2.75. Younf/ (60.892 Mt. Carmel, 111., August ll", 1870; 

 11. RiDGw.4.y.) Whole upper surface with indistinct transverse bars of pale ochraceous; 

 wing-markings light ochraceous. 



H.\B. Eastern United States to the Mississippi ; Yucatan. Localities : Cuba (Lawr. 

 VII, 1860, 265 ; Gundl. Rept. 1865, 240) ; San Antonio, Texas, summer (Dresser, 

 Ibis, 186.5, 475). 



Tlii.s species is very similar to £J. traiUi, l:mt the upper jiarts are of a 

 brighter aud more uniform olive-greeii, much like that of Vireo olivaceus. 

 The feathers of tlie crown lack the darker centre. There is less of the 

 olivaceous-ash across the breast. The bands across the winEr are light 

 yellowish, instead of grayish-oli\'e. There is much more yellow at the 

 base of the lesser quills. The wings are longer, both proportionally and 

 absolutely. The primaries exceed the secondaries by nearly an inch, 

 instead of by only about .70 ; the proportions of the cxuills are much the 

 same. 



Habits. This species belongs to Eastern North America, but its distribu- 

 tion north and east is not determined with entire certainty. I have never 

 met with or received any evidence of its breeding northeast of Philadel- 

 phia. Nuttall's account of this bird so blends what he had ascertained 

 in regard to the habits of a different species with what he deriN'ed from 

 other writers, that his whole sketch must be passed as unreliable. It is 

 shy and retiring in its habits, frequenting only lonely places, and would 

 readily escape notice, so that its presence in New Jersey, New York, and 

 even New England, may not be uncommon, although we dn nut know 

 it. ]\Ir. Lawrence mentions its occurring in the vicinity of New York 

 City ; but I can find no evidence whatever that a single specimen of this 

 bird has ever been procured in any part of New England, e.xcept IVIr. 

 Allen's mention of finding it near Springfield. Tliat it is found in the 

 immediate neighborhood of Philadeljihia I have positive evidence, lia\'ing 

 received its nest and eggs, found in West Philadelphia. Mr. Turnlmll 

 gives it as of frequent occurrence from the beginning of May to the middle 

 of September. He generally met with it in the most secluded ])arts of 

 woods. Mr. Mcllwraith calls it a rare summer resident near Hamilton, 

 Canada West. 



I am informed by Mr. Thomas H. Jackson, an accurate observer, resident 

 in Westchester, Pa., that this Flycatcher arrives in that neighborhood early 



