Flycatchers SONGLESS BIRDS. 



Nest : Close to the earth in swampy ground, set in a stump or up- 

 turned root ; constructed of mosses and thick- walled and bulky, 

 like the Phoebe's. 



Eggs: White, spotted. 



Range: Eastern North America to the Plains, and from southern 

 Labrador south through eastern Mexico to Panama. 



The Yellow-bellied Flycatcher is noted as a rare migrant 

 in this vicinity ; the only one that I have identified with cer- 

 tainty in the spring migration was killed by flying against a 

 wire trellis in the garden, but, like the last species, they are 

 more locally abundant in autumn. They sometimes breed in 

 northern Pennsylvania, in tangled thickets near streams. 



They are late birds in the spring, and do not arrive in 

 southern New England, en route for their breeding-haunts, 

 until the middle of May. 



Acadian Flycatcher: Empidonax ac adieus. 



PLATE VII. FIG. 5. 



Length : 5.75-6.25 inches. 



Male and Female : Above dull olive-green. Below yellowish, turning 



to light gray on throat and belly. White eye ring. Bill brown 



above, pale below ; feet brown. 

 Note : " Hick up ! Hick up ! " 

 Season : Summer resident, May to September. 

 Breeds : From Florida to southern Connecticut and Manitoba. 

 Nest : Shallow and loosely built, near the end of a slim horizontal 



branch ; made of grass, blossoms, and bark. 

 Eggs : Cream white, wreathed at the larger end. 

 Range : Eastern United States, chiefly southward ; west to the Plains, 



south to Cuba and Costa Rica. 



This little Flycatcher has a southerly range, only com- 

 ing over the New England border in summer; there are 

 but two breeding-records of it in Connecticut, one being 

 Greenwich, Conn., where a nest and young were found in 

 June, 1893. It is a common resident along the Hudson as 

 far north as Sing Sing, and Dr. Warren found it breeding 

 freely about West Chester, Penn., where he says the majority 



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