BB, A, e, 1. 



19O FLYCATCHEKS. 



times in villages. Nest of grass, etc. covered with lichens, 

 Fig. 244. saddled on a limb of a tree. Winters in 

 Central America and northern S. A. 

 Migrates in May and Oct. Common. 



f. Long-winged Pewees. 

 Nuttallornis. 



More robust in form than e with 

 longer wings and larger feet. 



1. OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER, 

 N. BOREALIS. Larger than e, 1,7.60; 

 with the olive of the sides darker and 

 inclined to be streaked, in strong con- 

 trast with the yellowish of under parts 

 a long, silky tuft of white feathers on flank, fig. 245. Breeds 

 in the higher mountainous parts of the U. S., occasionally 

 from Mass, northward to British Columbia and the Saskatch- 

 ewan River ; winters in Central Fig. 245. 

 America and northern S. A. ; 

 migrates north in late May, 

 south in Sep. Not very com- 

 mon. Nest of sticks ; eggs, 4, 

 creamy, heavily spotted with 

 brown. Notes, loud whistles. 

 Frequents open spots, near 

 woodlands. 



g. Little Flycatchers. 

 Empidoiiax. 



Small flycatchers with 

 short bills, greenish or olive BB, A, f, 1. 1-4. 



above, white or yellowish beneath ; light eye ring and wing- 

 bands. Alarm note a short "Pewit". 



1. LEAST FLYCATCHER, E. MINIMUS. 5.50; brown- 

 ish-olive above, yellowish-white beneath ; two wing-bands 

 and eye-ring white ; under mandible, dark, fig. 246. Breeds 

 in eastern N. A. from the Northern States northward ; winters 



