340 FLYCATCHERS. 



pee-ivee or pe-e-ivee oriven in a sweet, long 

 drawn resigned tone. Frequents open wood- 

 lands and groves, sometimes in villages. 

 Nests of grass, etc., covered with lichens, 

 saddled on a limb of a high tree. Eggs, 3, 

 creamy blotched with brown. 



370. OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER. 



Larger, 7.50; more robust, a band across 

 breast, olive, a patch' of white on sides of 

 rump (only occasionally seen), under mandi- 

 ble yellow, fig. 273. Notes, rather con- 

 tinuously given, much like those of a young 

 Robin, but louder and more minor. Fre- 

 quents open spots near woodlands, and 

 often perches on dead trees. Breeds in 

 inoutainous parts of U. S. from northern N. 

 E., occasionally from Mass. north into 

 Canada. Nests, of sticks, placed in trees; 

 eggs, 4, similar to last. 



371. LEAST FLYCATCHER. 



Smaller, 5.50, brownish-olive above; 

 yellow-white beneath ; two wing-bands and 



