328 THE TRAILL FLYCATCHER. 
No. 143. 
TRAILE PEVCAT CHE Re 
A. O. U. No. 466. Empidonax traillii (Aud.). 
Description.—ddult: Above olive, dark olive-green, or olive-brown, brown 
of head darker and unmistakable; wings and tail fuscous; wing-coverts tipped 
and inner quills margined with grayish (pale buffy or fulvous); pattern of 
edging on secondaries similar to that of preceding species but less distinct,— 
yellow not so abrupt, paler, etc.; wing-tip formed by second, third, and fourth 
primaries; first usually shorter than fifth; below sordid white, tinged on breast 
and sides with brownish gray, and with a faint wash of sulphur-yellow behind; 
bill dark above, light brown below. Jmimature: Browner above, more yellow 
below; wing-bands deep buffy or ochraceous. Length 5.75-6.25 (146.1-158.8) ; 
wing 2.84 (72.1); tail 2.22(56.4); bill from nostril .36 (9.1); width at base .30 
(7.6). Female not so long, but other dimensions substantially the same. 
Taken i 
Lorain County. Photo by the Author. 
A VIEW OF THE OAK POINT SWAMPS—A FAVORITE HAUNT OF THE TRAILEL FLYCATCHER. 
Recognition Marks.—Warbler to small Sparrow size; as compared with 
the preceding species, a general note of brownness observable; other diagnostic 
differences not easy, nor individually constant; habits quite different; a dweller 
in swamps and lowland thickets. 
Nest, a rather bulky but neatly-turned cup of plant-fibres, bark-strips, grass, 
etc., carefully lined with fine grasses; placed three to ten feet up, in crotch of 
