206 BIRDS OF NEW ENGLAND AND EASTERN NEW YORK 



Olive-sided Flycatcher. Nuttallomis borealis 

 7.39 



Ad. — Upper parts dark olive-gray and brown ; under parts 

 dark brownish on the sides, with a whitish stripe down the middle; 

 no wing-bars, except in young birds ; two white cottony tufts on 

 the flank, which show in flight. 



Nest, placed on a limb of an evergreen, twenty or thirty feet up. 

 Eggs, white, with dark spots. 



The Olive-sided Flycatcher breeds here and there in the 

 hill country of Berkshire and Worcester counties in Massa- 

 chusetts, not uncommonly in portions of Cape Cod, and 

 regularly in the Canadian Zone. It is a rare migrant through 

 eastern New England, in late May and early June ; in west- 

 ern New England and the Hudson Valley it is less rare. 



On the higher Catskills and the Adirondacks, and in 

 northern New England, wherever the woodsman or a forest 

 fire has left tall dead trees, the wild call of this bird may be 

 heard. The birds fly from the tops of the tall stubs, some- 

 times almost straight up, or circle about, and light again on 

 another perch. The song is loud, and resembles the syllables 

 pi-pee', or pip, pi-pee r . The call heard constantly, even in 

 August, when the song is infrequent, is a loud pip, pip-pip. 



Phcebe ; Bridge Pewee. Sayornis phcebe 

 6.99 



Ad. — Upper parts grayish-brown; head dark brown; no con- 

 spicuous icing-bars; throat and breast grayish; belly pale yellow- 

 ish; sides dark. Im. — Wing-bars more distinct, and the under 

 parts yellower. 



Nest, composed largely of moss, placed on a beam or rafter in 

 a shed or under a bridge, and in less settled regions on a ledge of 

 rock. 



The Phoebe is a common summer resident throughout 

 New York and New England. It arrives late in March or 

 early in April, and lingers into October. It is common about 



