206 BIRDS OF NORTH CAROLINA 



Range in United Stales. Whole country in migrations, but not common. In summer only 

 on the northern border and the higher mountains. 



Range in North Carolina. Portions of the mountain region in summer. 



The Olive-sided Flycatcher is quite a rare bird, and in this State has been re- 

 corded from Highlands, where Brewster found it late in May, 1885, settled down 

 and apparently preparing to breed. (Auk, Jan., 1886, p. 105.) C. L. Boynton 

 also records it as nesting near this place and as having been first seen on April 25. 

 Cairns states that it bred on the Black Mountains in Buncombe County, and says 

 it was first observed near Weaverville in 1886, on April 19. Rhoads in 1895 saw 

 one on Roan Mountain. 



The nest resembles that of the Wood Pewee, though larger. It is saddled on 

 the horizontal limb of some pine, spruce, hemlock, or other conifer, usually at a 

 considerable height from the ground. The eggs are commonly three in number, laid 

 in June or early July, and in color much resemble those of the Wood Pewee. They 

 measure about .80 x .60. 



Genus Myiochanes (C. & H.) 

 191. Myiochanes virens (Linn.). WOOD PEWEE. 



Description. Olive brown above, paler below. Known from other small flycatchers by 

 the short legs and long wings, as well as by its well-known notes, which may be represented 

 by pe-weeee, or pe-de-weeee, the latter being perhaps the nearer to nature. Measurements 

 of 33 Raleigh specimens: L., 5.80-6.40; W., 3.00-3.50; T., 2.40-2.75. 



Range in United States. East of the Great Plains in summer; breeds throughout its range. 



Range in North Carolina. Whole State in summer, breeding everywhere. 



PIG. 161. WOOD PEWEE. 



The Wood Pewee is the most common of all our flycatchers, arriving in the 

 State from the south (Mexico, Central and South America), where it spends the 

 winter, about the last week in April, while the last birds do not leave in autumn 

 until October. (Latest dates are, at Raleigh, October 13; Weaverville, October 5; 

 Durham, October 23.) 



