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ZOOLOGY— BIRDS. 



EMPIDONAX MINIMUS, B.l. 

 Least Flycatcher. 



Tyrannula minima, Wm. M. & S. F. Baikd, I'roc. Acad. Nut. Sci. I'hihi., i, July, 184;?, l'S4. 



Empidonax minimus, Bl)., Birds N. A., 1858, lOiJ. — .\I.I.EN, Bull. Mils. Coiiip. Zoiil., 

 1872, 17!) (Eastern Kaiisa.s, May).— CouES, Key N. A. Birds, 187:.', 175.— 

 Snow, Birds Kau., 1872, 0. — Bu., Brew., & BiDC, N. A. Birds, ii, 1874, 

 372, 1)1. 44, t'. 10.— IJKN.SUAW, Rep. Orn. Specs., 1873, Wheeler's Exped., 

 1874, (iO.— ALLEN, Proc. Bo.st. Soc. Nat. Uist., .Juno, 1874, U>, 32.— CoUES, 

 Birds Northwest, 1874, 254. 



The Least Flycatcher is a bird decidedly eastern in its habitat, occurring 

 as a migrant Iroiii the Atluutic across to the Mis.souri Plains, and j)assiiig- 



