300 LAND-BIRDS. 



D. ACADicus.^^^ Small Green-crested Flycatcher, Aca- 

 dian Flycatcher. Hardly to be ranked as a bird of New 

 England.* 



a. About six inches long. Tail, even ; crown-feathers, 

 erectile (as in all Flycatchers), and dark-centred (?). Like 

 F. flciviventris in coloration, but rather less bright above, 

 with the yellow beneath very pale, or confined to the hinder 

 parts. Eye-ring, etc., yellowish ; breast, shaded with olive 

 green. 



h. The nest is built in a tree, not very far from the 

 ground. An e^gg in my collection measures about .85 X .65 

 of an inch, and is white, with a feio brown markings at 

 the larger end. 



c. Mr. Henshaw, in comparing this species with Traill's, ^^^ 

 says : " In New England, if the Acadian Flycatcher be found 

 at all, it is in the character of a very rare visitant, and I am 

 inclined to believe that all of the various quotations assign- 

 ing this bird to a place in the New England fauna may be set 

 down as instances of mistaken identification, not excepting the 

 evidence of Mr. J. A. Allen, who states that E. acadicus is a 

 rare summer visitant near Springfield, Mass. I am inclined to 

 think that Mr. Allen's acadicus were really traillii, more es- 

 pecially since, in recounting the habits, he says, ' It breeds in 

 swamps and thickets, which are its exclusive haunts.' This 

 accords perfectly with the habits of F. traillii^ and is utterly 

 at variance with those of acadicus^ as elsewhere shown. f 



" As at present made out the Acadian Flycatcher reaches no 

 further north along the coast than New Jersey. Nor in the 



lo*^ This species is considered by some took a nest and three eggs at Hyde 



authors as probably identical with E. Park (near Boston), Massachusetts. 



trailli,"' next to which it should stand. {Ornithologist and Oologist, volume 



As it is questionably a bird of New XIII, October, 1888, page 160). I have 



England, I have placed it at the end of examined these specimens, and the par- 



the group. ent bird is now in my collection. — ■ 



" No one now doubts the specific dis- W. B. 



tinctness of E. traillii and E. acadicus. 108 Quarterly Bulletin of the Nuttall 



— W. B. Ornithological Club, Cambridge, Mass. 



* A very rare summer resident of f " Since penning the above I under- 



Connecticut and eastern Massachusetts, stand that Mr. Allen allows this view 



In June, 1888, Mr. Frederick W. Hill to be correct." 



