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rosidcnt brooding in JcflorsDu ('(umty, in that State. Tliis is its most oast- 

 em known occurri'ncc. In the Sniitiisnnian Musmni iuc skins from Fort 

 Stoilai'oom, Fort 'IVjon, and Mexico. Tlii.s species is |)roltal)ly identical with 

 the Litth' Tvraiit Flvcatclier, di'scrilted i»v Swainson in the Fanna lioreali 

 as liotli from Mexico and from tin* Arctic regions. I)r. Kichardson was not 

 ai)l(j to su]>|>ly Jinythinj^ in regard to its hahits. Tiiey were first seen by 

 him at the Carlton Honse on the I'Jth of May. For a few thiys they were 

 found tlittini; about amoiiLC h»w bushes on the Itanks of the river, alter which 

 thev retired to moist shadv woods Ivinii farther north. 



Mr. I{idi;way mentions the E. jutsi/lus as the m(»si common of the JCmpi- 

 (fonnrr.^ in the (Jn-at IJasin, as well as in California and the INuky Moun- 

 tains. It is chiefly, if not entirely, ccmtined to the wiUows alon<,^ streams, 

 but it is as common in the ri\ . r vaUeys as in the mountain " parks." In all 

 respects it is a c(»unterpart of the A'. trn'tlli\ its notes, as well as its manners, 

 beiiif' the same. In Parley's Park, in the Wahsatch Mountains, at an ele- 

 vation of over 7,000 feet, they were breeding abuntlantly ; about nightfall 

 they became jjarticnlarly active, (diasini; each other, with a meiTy twitter, 

 throuuh the willow thickets, or, as they perched upon a dry twi^;, uttered 

 freijuently, with swellini^ throats and raised crest, their odd but aijreeable 

 enunciation of pirttt/ dear.nii their notes were translated by the ptMJple of 

 the locality. 



In the I)e])artment of Vera Cruz, Mexico, Mr. Sumichrast gives thi.s spe- 

 cies as a summer resident within the temperate region. He found it t|uite 

 common around Orizaba in the months of June and Julv. 



It was also met with on the Mexican lioundary Survey in summer, hav- 

 ing been taken in June at Los Xogales by Dr. Kennedy, and at Kio Xasas, 

 in Duvango, by Lieutenant (V)uch,the same month. 



Dr. Cones mentions it as moderately plentiful as a summer resident in 

 Arizona. Xone of this genus were very conmion at F'ort \Vhip]>le, but this 

 one was by fiir the most characteristic s])ecies. It arrives there about the 

 middle of A]»ril, and remains through Se])tember. 



Dr. Suckley Ibund this species cpiite abundant in the vicinity of Fort 

 Steilacoom, where it arrives early in May. It seems to ])refer the vicinity 

 of bushes and low trees at the edges of dense forests. This species, he adds, 

 is rather less pugnacious than others of the group, and in habits generally 

 more resembles the Vireo family. Its notes are said to be short but sweet, 

 and just after sundown on warm summer evenings particularly low, plain- 

 tive, and .soothing. 



I )r. ( 'ooper speaks of it as found by him freciuenting the dark and gloomy 

 spruce forests, which it seems to prefer to more o])en ]daces. He found it 

 most numerous near the coast, but also saw a few at Puget Sound, where 

 it arrived about the l!.')th of A])ril. He sjieaks of its song as lively but 

 monotonous. He found it verv dithcult to jjet a si<j:ht of this bird among 

 the upper branches of the tall spruces, its color making it almost invisible in 



