Il6 THE CHICAGO ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 



The range of this species covers the eastern United States 

 and British Possessions, west to Manitoba and the Great Plains. 

 In winter, south to Panama and Colombia. It breeds from 

 Florida northward. 



Genus SAYORNIS Bonaparte, 1854. 



Sayornis phoebe (Latham). Phcebe. 



Muscicapa fusca GMELIN, S. N., I, 1788, 93 (nee Bodd., 1783). 



Muscicapa phoebe LATHAM, Ind. Orn., II, 1790, 489. 



Tyrannus fusous NUTTALL, Man., ed. 2, I, .1840, 312. 



Sayornis fuscus BAIRD. P>. N. Amer., 1858, 184. 



Sayornis phoebe STEJNEGEB, Auk, II, Jan. 1885, 51. 



Popular synonyms: PEWEE, BARN PHGEBE. PEWIT FLYCATCHER. 



The Phoebe is a common summer resident, arriving late in 

 March and departing from the last of September to the middle 

 of October. The Phoebe is noted for the persistency with which 

 it will nest in a spot particularly suitable to its desires. It has 

 been known to nest for several years in the same spot, though 

 the nest has been repeatedly destroyed. 



Its range includes the eastern United States and British Pos- 

 sessions, west to the eastern edge of the Great Plains, and from 

 New Brunswick and the Mackenzie River southward. It winters 

 from the south Atlantic and Gulf states southward, and breeds 

 from South Carolina, Louisiana and western Texas northward. 



Genus NUTTALLORNIS Rid-way, 1887. 



Nuttallornis borealis (Swainson). Olive-sided Flycatcher. 



Tyrannus borealis SWAINSON, in Sw. & Rich., Fauna Bor. Amer., II, 



1831, 141, pi. 35. 



Muscicapa cooperi NUTTALL, Man., ed. I, 1832, 282. 

 Tyrannus cooperi BONAPARTE, 1838, in Nuttall's Man., ed. 2, I, 1840, 



298. 



"Nuttallornis lorealis OBERHOLZER, Auk, XVI, Oct., 1899, 331. 

 Contopus borealis BAIRD, B. N. Amer., 1858, 188. 



This flycatcher is a very rare migrant. I have a specimen 

 taken by Mr. Graham Davis at Forty-seventh Street and Grand 

 Boulevard, Chicago, May 26, 1887. A pair were seen near the 

 north pond in Lincoln Park, Chicago, on May 20, 1904, by Mr. 

 Ruthven Deane and Mr. Herbert E. Walter. Mr. E. W. Nelson 

 says :* "Not an uncommon migrant, from May I5th to 25th, and 

 the last of September and first of October. I have taken one 

 specimen as late as June 2nd. It may breed." 



*Birds of Northeastern Illinois, Bull, of the Essex Institute, Vol. VIII, 1876, 113. 



