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Thp upper parts, with si'flos of tlie IickI anrl neck, olive-jrrcon ; tho crown vt^y littlf if 

 any darker. A yellowisii-white rin^' round the eye. The sides of the body uudrr thr 

 winirs hke the l)aek, hut fainter ohve : a tiui^e of the same across the breast; thi- ehiu, 

 throat, and nii<ldle of the belly white; tiie abd<Mnen, lower tail and wing eoverts, and 

 sides of the body not covered by the winirs. pale }j:reenish-y<"llow. Edtres of tlie tirst 

 primary, secondaries, and tertials niarijined with dull yellowish-white, most broailly on 

 the latter. Two transverse bands of pale yellowish (sometimes with an oehrey tinirt") 

 across the wind's, formed by the tips of the secondary and primary coverts, sueceeded by 

 a brown one. Tail liirht l)ro\vn, mar<,'ined externally like the back. I'pper niandil>le 

 liufht brown above ; pale yellow Iteneath. In autumn the lower parts are more yellow 

 Lenirth, o.C,;"); wiuiT, :'».00 ; tail, 2.7o. Vouuff (r,O.S!)2 Mt. Carmel, 111., Auj^'ust 11, ISTO; 

 U. IJm)(;\v.\v.) Whole upper surface with indistinct transverse bars of pale ochraceotis; 

 winir-markinjrs lij,dit oehraceous. 



II AB. lOastern United States to the Mi-^r.issippi ; Yucatan. Localities: Cuba (Lawr, 

 VII. 18(iO, UG.'i : GuNUL. Kept. 18G5, 240); San Antonio, Texas, summer (^Dittsstu, 

 Ibis, ISGo, 47.'>). 



Tl)is s]iecies is very similar to E.trailli, hnt the upper parts are of a 

 brighter and more uniform olive-ujreen, much like that of Vitro o/lvarcu'i. 

 The feathers of the crown lack the darker centre. There is less of the 

 olivaceous-ash across the ])reast. The .bands across the win«^ are li<,dit 

 yellowish, instead of grayisli-olive. There is much more yellow at the 

 base of the lesser quills. The wings are longer, both proportionally and 

 absolutely. The primaries exceed the secondaries by nearly an inch, 

 instead of by only about .70 ; the proportions of the quills are much the 

 same. 



Habits. This species belongs to Eastern Xorth America, but its distribu- 

 tion north and east is not determined with entire certainty. I have never 

 met with or received any evidence of its breeding northeast of Philadel- 

 phia. Nuttall's account of this bird so blends what he had ascertained 

 in regard to the habits of a different species with what he derived from 

 other writers, that his whole sketch must be passed as unreliable. It is 

 shy and retiring in its habits, frequenting only lonely places, and would 

 readily escape notice, so that its presence in New Jersey, New York, and 

 even New Et jland, may not be uncommon, although we do not know 

 it. Mr. Lawrence mentions its occurring in the vicinity of New York 

 City ; but I can find no evidence whatever that a single specimen of this 

 bird has ever been procured in any part of New England, except Mr. 

 Allen's mention of finding it near Springfield. That it is found in the 

 immediate neighborhood of Philadelphia I have positive evidence, having 

 received its nest and eggs, found in AYest Philadelphia. Mr. Turnbull 

 gives it as of frequent occurrence from the beginning of May to the middle 

 of September. He generally met with it in the most secluded parts of 

 woods. Mr. Mcllwraith calls it a rare summer resident near Hamilton, 

 Canada West. 



I am informed by Mr. Thomas H. Jackson, an accunite observer, resident 

 in Westchester, Pa., that this Flycatcher arrives in that neighborhood early 



