CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 38I 



CLXXXIX. EMPIDONAX Cabanis. 1855. 

 463, Yellow-bellied Flycatcher. 



Empidoiiax flavivoitris Baird. 1S58. 



Two received from Godthaab in Greenland in 1853. (A}xf. Man.) 

 Apparentl}^ a common summer migrant in Newfoundland. (Reeks.) 

 Iwo specimens were seen on the Humber river, X^ewfoundland, on 

 August 15th, 1899. (L. H. Porter.) Several seen on Sable island, 

 N.S., June 8th, 1904, and one seen, June 20th, 1907. (/. Boutelier.) 

 A common summer resident in Nova Scotia. (Doivus.) Fairly 

 common in dense woods at Wolfville, N.S., during the summer. 

 {H. F. Tufts.) Found only at Tignish, Prince Edward island ; in small 

 numbers. Observed in small numbers at Baddeck, Cape Breton 

 island. (Divight.) A common summer resident in New Brunswick. 

 {Chamberlain.) Rather common at Ellis bay, Anticosti, about the 

 edges of the woods. {Brewster.) I noticed this bird on the Mag- 

 dalen islands in 1897, and op the 13th June of that year one came 

 on board the steamer I was on, when off the Gaspe coast. I have not 

 seen it in Ontario. {Rev. C. J. Young.) Common at Lake Mistas- 

 sini. Que, and breeds. (/. M. Macoun.) Taken at Beauport ; a common 

 summer resident in Quebec. {Dionne.) A rather scarce summer 

 resident in the Montreal district. I have not found a nest of this 

 species here yet but have shot several specimens of the bird. {Wintle.) 



A rare summer resident in the Ottawa district ; a nest of this species 

 was taken at Chelsea, Que., in June, 1897. {Ottawa Naturalist, 

 Vol. V.) Regular migrant at Toronto, usually not very common; 

 a common and widely distributed species, breeding in Muskoka and 

 Parry Sound districts. (/. H. Fleming.) I usually see one or more 

 of this species at Toronto during the spring and fall migrations- 

 while here they are very shy. On following one I usually find the 

 bird making a series of quiet disappearances. (/. H ughes-.Saniiiel.) 

 Not observed to breed near London, Ont., but Dr. P. J. Scott found 

 a nest near Southampton. I found this species, evidently breeding, 

 in the Bruce peninsula where it was rare. {W . E. Saunders.) Sum- 

 mer resident in woodlands in Manitoba. Duck mountain, June nth, 

 1884. shot a flycatcher that was continually uttering a note like 

 "che-blick"; it was all over of a areenish colour, but vellow on the 



