OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER 257 



Olive-sided Flycatcher : Contopus borealis. 



Upper parts blackish brown, throat and middle of belly whitish ; 



rest of under parts like back ; lower half of bill pale ; white 



tufts on sides of rump. Length, about 7-J inches. 

 GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION. North America ; breeds in the 



east from Massachusetts and Minnesota northward; winters 



in Central and South America. 



Adirondack visitors sometimes have the good 

 fortune to see this interesting bird. One summer 

 when rowing on Little Otter, one of the small 

 lakes on the edge of the Adirondacks, I heard the 

 loud call, and traced it to the bird at the top of a 

 dead tree overlooking the lake. There he sat in 

 solitude, surveying the landscape, at intervals 

 shooting out in true Flycatcher style after pass- 

 ing insects. His call, which Mr. Torrey hears 

 as que-que f -o, has less of command than the Great 

 Crest's ; in fact it is rather plaintive, more on the 

 cast of the Wood Pewee's ; and in listening to it 

 on Little Otter, as my floating boat displaced the 

 water-lilies of the quiet lake, the solitary bird's 

 cry seemed to harmonize well with the sombre 

 depths of the silent evergreen forest. 



