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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) J 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 ; clcotip 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, .73 x .54 

 (18.5 x 13.7). 



General Range. Eastern 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- 

 save their own 

 rugged grace and 

 their aureoles of 

 living green. 

 Their unfluted 

 sides are frescoed, 

 perhaps, in lichen 

 hues of ashy- 



cuse 



Taken near 

 Danville. 



ACADIAN FLYCATCHER-FEMALE BROODING YOUNG. 



