C JT. Merridiii — liir^ls oj' ('oiuiccticnt. D.') 



riiibagoo), and Prof. Cliarli's K. llaiiiliii also ol»sfr\c.l it, in Ken- 

 nebec County, ill llu' same State.* Dr. \V. H. (Jicm; loun.l tlnii ii 

 was "not a very common s))ccies" near Elinira, Clicimiiio- (',,., soiiili- 

 erii New York, " wlicrc lie met witli only two s|)cciiii('iis tliiriii'4 sev- 

 eral years of Linl collect iiiu-."f In cent ml Ohio it is, accordiiH^ to the 

 high authority of Dr. .1. M. Wheaton, a. "rare migraii1."|. Tlie 

 reeonl of its oceurrenee in tlie east, south of New .lersey, is not well 

 autlientieated. ]My friend, Mr. K. I*. Hickiiell, infoniis nie llial he 

 has taken several specimens "and saw six or seven indi\ idimls he 

 tween Auo-nst 21st and Sept. 26th, 1876, at iriverdale, Westchester 

 Co., N. Y. 



Now, on the other hand, on going northward, wi- tind it hiceding 

 at Randolph, Vermont (Chas. S. Paine),§ and ]\Ir. Osborne has seen 

 it about jNIt. Washington. "Audubon found it in Afaiiie, on the 

 Magdeline Islands, and on the coast of Labrador,"|| as mentioned liv 

 Dr. Brewer, who further states that "Mr. Hoardman n-ports the 

 Olive-sided Flycatcher as having of late years lieen very abundant 

 during the summer in the dead woods about the lakes west of Calais 

 [eastern Maine] where formerly they were quite uncommon," an«l 

 that he is informed by Mr. IToy "that this sjiecies used to be 

 quite common near Racine [Wis(^onsiii], frecpienting the e<Io-es of 

 thick woods, Avhere tliey nested.'''' 



From the above references it, will lie seen that the Oli\ I'-sided 

 Flycatcher belongs, in the east, to the Canadian fauna, while it (u-ca- 

 sionally extends down into the Alleghanian, and, if Cooper''s record 

 can l)e relied on, stragglers have been known to breed in the Caroli- 

 nian. Going westward, however, the case is fjuite ditterent, and we 

 find Corito2riis horeallshvoQiWwis, in numbers from the "Cumberland 

 House, on the Saskatchewan, in latitude 54°,'"^ Avheiv it was obtained 

 by Sir John Richardson, and described l»y Swainson in ls;}| (this 

 descri])tion having priority over NuttalTs, which was not published 

 till 18:};3), to Camp Rowie, Arizona, latitude ;^2°, " within one hundred 

 miles of Mexico," A\here l)otli "young and old were secured in 



* Report Sect. Maine Board Agriculture, p. 170, 1805. 



f Catalogue of the Bird.s of Ohemung Co , N. Y., 1)3- W. II. Gregg, ^f.D. Fro 

 Proceed. Elmira Academy of Sciences, 1S70. 



\ The Food of Birds as related to Agriculture, liy J. M. Whcatoii, M.D. Fro 

 Ohio Agricultural Report, p. 8, 1874. 



§ Appendix to Zadoclv Tliompson's History of Vermont, p. 21. \XU?i. 



II History N. Am. Birds, Baird, Brewer and Ridgway. vol. ii. p. ?>M. 



Tf Coues, Birds of the Nortliwest, \y 214. 1874. 



