324 THE ACADIAN FLYCATCHER. 
formed by second and third primaries; first longer than fifth; eye-ring, white, 
or palest possible yellow below; below white, shaded with olive or olive-gray on 
sides and across breast, tinged with sulphur-yellow on belly (except the mid- 
dle), flanks, and lining of wings; bill broad, blackish above, pale beneath; feet 
dark. Immature: Like adult, but with ochraceous wing-bars and edgings, and 
brighter green above, with paler tips of feathers—thus lightening the general 
effect. Length, 5.50-6.10 (139.7-154.9); wing, 2.87 (72.9); tail, 2.27 (57.7); 
bill from nostril .37 (9.4) ; width at base .30 (7.6). 
Recognition Marks.—Larger Warbler size; distinctly olive (of some shade) 
above; throat whitish; yellow-tinged on belly and flanks; cleotip note; an in- 
habitant of woodland, especially beech. 
Nest, a frail and shallow saucer of leaf-stems, dried blossoms, or twigs, and 
rarely, grasses; placed in forklet near tip of declining beech-branch, at a height 
of from seven to fifteen feet. Eggs, 2 or 3 and sometimes 4, creamy-white, 
sparingly spotted about larger end with rusty-brown. Av. size, .73x.54 
(GSES Se 12477) 
General Range.—E astern United States, north to southern New York and 
southern Michigan, west to the Plains, south to Cuba and Costa Rica. Rare or 
casual in southern New England. 
Range in Ohio.—Abundant summer resident. One of the most charac- 
teristic birds of our numerous beech woodlands. 
“THE groves were God's first temples,” and in none of them is worship 
fitter than in a wood of ancient beeches. The floor of the temple is ribbed 
with their roots, gnarled and wide - spreading. 
Plinth and archi- trave are wanting, but the sturdy 
beech columns need no ex- 
cuse save their own 
rugged grace and 
their aureoles of 
living green. 
Their unfluted 
sides are frescoed, 
perhaps, in lichen 
hues of  ashy- 
Pheto by 
J. B. Parker 
Taken near 
Danville. 
ACADIAN FLYCATCHER—FEMALE BROODING YOUNG. 
