10 JUNE IN FRANCONIA. 



after both the least flycatcher and the wood 

 pewee. His killic (so written in the books, 

 and I do not know how to improve upon it) 

 resembles the chebec of the least flycatcher, 

 though much less emphatic, as well as much 

 less frequently uttered, while his twee, or 

 tuwee, is quite in the voice and manner of 

 the wood pewee 's clear, plaintive whistle; 

 usually a monosyllable, but at other times 

 almost or quite dissyllabic. The olive-sided, 

 on the other hand, imitates nobody; or, if 

 he does, it must be some bird with which I 

 have yet to make acquaintance. Que-que-o 

 he vociferates, with a strong emphasis and 

 drawl upon the middle syllable. This is his 

 song, or what answers to a song, but I have 

 seen him when he would do nothing but re- 

 peat incessantly a quick trisyllabic call, 

 whit, whit, whit ; corresponding, I suppose, 

 to the well-known whit with which the phoebe 

 sometimes busies himself in a similar man- 

 ner. 



Of more interest than any flycatcher 

 of more interest even than the Tennessee 

 warbler was a bird found by the roadside 

 in the village, after we had been for several 

 days in the place. Three of us were walk- 



