GREEN, GREENISH GRAY, AND OLIVE 441 
hastily swallowed bug en rowte if he can, going hungry 
if he must. Small wonder that he forgets to sing or 
even to scold, but becomes for the time a silent, self- 
absorbed drudge in the workaday world. 
468. HAMMOND FLYCATCHER. — Empidonax 
hammondz. 
Famity: The Flycatchers. 
Length: 5.50-5.75. 
Adults: Upper parts olive, grayer anteriorly ; wing-bars light grayish or 
tinged with yellow; outer tail-feathers edged with whitish; throat 
grayish ; breast strongly shaded with olive; belly and under tail- 
coverts yellowish. 
Geoyraphical Distribution: Western North America, east to the Rocky 
Mountains ; north to the interior of Alaska; south in winter to 
Mexico. 
California Breeding Range: Through Transition and lower Boreal zones 
from Mt. Shasta to San Jacinto mountains. 
Breeding Season: June. 
Nest : On a horizontal limb of a tree, 2 to 50 feet from the ground ; made 
of old weed stems, plant fibres, shreds of bark, plant down ; lined with 
grass, shreds of bark, plant down, hair, and a few feathers. 
Eggs: 3 or 43; creamy white, sometimes lightly spotted with brown at 
the larger end. Size 0.70 & 0.53. 
THe Hammond Flycatcher is the Western representa- 
tive of the Chebec of the East. Unlike the latter, 
however, it is a shy dweller of the mountains, nesting 
oftenest, in the higher altitudes, from five thousand to 
ten thousand feet. 
- Instead of the merry little note which has given the 
Eastern species its nickname, the Hammond Flycatcher 
gives only a low, indistinct whistle and a soft “peet.” 
Building in the higher branches of the coniferous trees, 
