10 JUNE IN FRANCONIA. 
after both the least flycatcher and the wood 
pewee. His Killic (so written in the books, 
and I do not know how to improve upon it) 
resembles the chebec of the least flycatcher, 
though much less emphatic, as well as much 
less frequently uttered, while his twee, or 
tuwee, is quite in the voice and manner of 
the wood pewee’s clear, plaintive whistle; 
usually a monosyllable, but at other times 
almost or quite dissyllabic. The olive-sided, 
on the other hand, imitates nobody; or, if 
he does, it must be some bird with which I 
have yet to make acquaintance. (ue-qite-o 
he vociferates, with a strong emphasis and 
drawl upon the middle syllable. This is his 
song, or what answers to a song, but I have 
seen him when he would do nothing but re- 
peat incessantly a quick trisyllabic call, 
whit, whit, whit ; corresponding, I suppose, 
to the well-known whit with which the phebe 
sometimes busies himself in a similar man- 
ner. 
Of more interest than any flycatcher — 
of more interest even than the Tennessee 
warbler — was a bird found by the roadside 
in the village, after we had been for several 
days in the place. Three of us were walk- 
