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456. Sayornis Phoebe (I/ath.). PHCEBE. Common 

 summer resident. 



459. Contopus borealis (Swains.)- OLIVE-SIDED 

 FLYCATCHER. A rather rare summer resident ; breeds regu- 

 larly at Tatham, in West Springfield. For several successive 

 seasons a pair made their home in the Peabody cemetery, 

 Springfield, but they abandoned that place some five or six 

 years ago. 



461. Contopus virens (I/inn.). WOOD PE WEE. Com- 

 mon summer resident. 



463. Empidonax flaviventris Baird. YELLOW- 

 BELLIED FLYCATCHER. Tolerably common spring and autumn 

 visitor. Once a specimen of this kind was brought to me with 

 a broken wing, and evidently in a half -starved condition ; I 

 forced a fly down its throat, and in a few minutes it took them 

 in this unusual way without resistance, and in half an hour it 

 would come across the cage in which it was confined, and 

 eagerly snap a fly from my hand. This was the quickest tam- 

 ing of a wild bird that I have ever known. 



465. Empidonax virescens (Vieill.). GREEN- 

 CRESTED FLYCATCHER. Accidental visitor ; it has been taken 

 at Suffield. (See Merriam's Birds of Connecticut, page 58.) 



466. a Empidonax traillii alnorum Brewst. ALDER 

 FLYCATCHER. A rare summer resident ; found in the ex- 

 treme western part of Hampden and Hampshire counties. 



467. Bmpidonax minimus Baird. LEAST FLY- 

 CATCHER. Common summer resident. 



474. Otocoris alpestris (I/inn.). HORNED LARK. A 

 rare spring and autumn visitor. 



474. b Otocoris alpestris praticola Hensh. PRAIRIE 

 HORNED LARK. There is an old specimen in the Science 



