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a series of chuckling notes made with flut- 

 tering wings; frequents low growths in 

 wooded glens. Nests of sticks, lichens, and 

 moss, placed in bushes, usually a witch hazel; 

 e.egs, 4, creamy, spotted and blotched with 

 red-brown. 



375. YELLOW-BELLIED FLY- 

 CATCHER. 



Smaller than last, yellow-green above; 

 pale greenish yellow on wing-bands, eye- 

 ring and beneath. Breeds from northern 

 U. S. northward to southern Labrador; win- 

 ters in Mexico and Central America; south 

 in Sept., north in late May. Occurs in 

 alder and other thickets, keeps low among 

 the foliage, not very active. Note a low 

 peea rather plaintive and long drawn, fre- 

 quently given; then, less often, a gravely 

 rendered foil-lick. Nests on ground in 

 shelter of upturned roots of fallen trees or 

 in a bunch of moss; eggs, 4-5, white, dotted 

 with pale reddish. 



While all of these four species of Fly- 



