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accuses them of eating newly hatched fish. The food is 
swallowed by the adults and afterwards given to the 
young by regurgitation until they are four or five days 
old. 
466. TRAILL FLYCATCHER. — Empidonaz traillii. 
. Famity: The Flycatchers. 
Length: 5.80-6.25. 
Adults: Upper parts olive, darkest on head; wing-bars varying from 
brownish gray to white ; eye-ring white ; under parts white, shaded 
with olive grayish on breast, and tinged with bright yellow on poste- 
rior parts ; under wing-coverts pale yellowish. 
Young: Similar to adults, but upper parts browner ; under parts more 
distinctly tinged with yellow ; wing-bars yellowish brown. 
Geoyraphical Distribution: Western North America, from the Missis- 
sippi valley to the Pacific ; south in winter to Mexico. 
California Breeding Range: In interior valleys, to Sacramento and 
Honey Lake. 
Lreeding Season: May 15 to July 15. 
Nest: Deep, cup-shaped, bulky ; usually built between forks of an up- 
right branch in bushes, near water, 1 to 18 feet from the ground ; 
made of plant down, dry grasses, shreds of bark, ete. ; lined with 
fibre, fur, down, and horsehair. 
Figgs: 2 to 4; white or pinkish, spotted mostly at larger end with light 
brown. Size 0.73 X 0.53. 
THE Traill Flycatcher is a common summer resident 
in all suitable localities throughout the United States, 
but is distinctly a bird of the open country along the 
alder thickets of the river lands. It is restless and ener- 
getic, flitting about among the bushes but keeping out 
of sight except when a too enthusiastic sally after a pass- 
ing insect betrays its whereabouts. But for this and a 
habit it has of calling out in a fretful tone at the approach 
of any person, it would never be noticed, so small is it 
and so well concealed by the waving leaves, Its notes 
