300 LAND-BIRDS. 



D. ACADicus. 107 Small Green-crested Flycatcher. Aca- 

 dian Flycatcher. Hardly to be ranked as a bird of New 

 England.* 



a. About six inches long. Tail, even ; crown-feathers, 

 erectile (as in all Flycatchers), and dark-centred (?). Like 

 E. flaviventris in coloration, but rather less bright above, 

 with the yellow beneath very pale, or confined to the hinder 

 parts. Eye-ring, etc., yellowish; breast, shaded with olive 

 green. 



b. The nest is built in a tree, not very far from the 

 ground. An egg in my collection measures about .85 X -65 

 of an inch, and is white, with a few brown markings at 

 the larger end. 



c. Mr. Henshaw, in comparing this species with Traill's, 108 

 says : " In New England, if the Acadian Flycatcher be found 

 at all, it is in the character of a very rare visitant, and I am 

 inclined to believe that all of the various quotations assign- 

 ing this bird to a place in the New England fauna may be set 

 down as instances of mistaken identification, not excepting the 

 evidence of Mr. J. A. Allen, who states that E. acadicus is a 

 rare summer visitant near Springfield, Mass. I am inclined to 

 think that Mr. Allen's acadicus were really traillii, more es- 

 pecially since, in recounting the habits, he says, ' It breeds in 

 swamps and thickets, which are its exclusive haunts.' This 

 accords perfectly with the habits of E. traillii, and is utterly 

 at variance with those of acadicus, as elsewhere shown. f 



" As at present made out the Acadian Flycatcher reaches no 

 further north along the coast than New Jersey. Nor in the 



107 This species is considered by some took a nest and three eggs at Hyde 



authors as probably identical with E. Park (near Boston), Massachusetts. 



traillii next to which it should stand. (Ornithologist and Oologist, volume 



As it is questionably a bird of New XIII, October, 1888, page 160). I have 



England, I have placed it at the end of examined these specimens, and the par- 



the group. ent bird is now in my collection. 



a No one now doubts the specific dis- W. B. 



tinctness of E. traillii and E. acadicus. W8 Quarterly Bulletin of the Nuttall 



W. B. Ornithological Club, Cambridge, Mass. 



* A very rare summer resident of f " Since penning the above I under- 



Connecticut and eastern Massachusetts, stand that Mr. Allen allows this view 



In June, 1888, Mr. Frederick W. Hill to be correct." 



