208 BIRDS OF ]^ORTH CAROLINA 



and apparently always in a boggy or swampy place. The eggs are four in number, 

 laid in mid-June or later, and from the descriptions appear to resemble those of 

 the Acadian Flycatcher, in size, color, and markings. 



FIG. 162. YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHER. 



In the Northern States it reaches its breeding grounds in late May, and begins 

 to leave for its winter home in Mexico and Central America in August. It has 

 been recorded only once from North Carolina, when Cairns took a female in Bun- 

 combe County, August 11, 1890. 



193. Empidonax virescens (Vieill.}, ACADIAN FLYCATCHER. 



Description. Upperparts between olive-green and dark olive-green; wings and tail fuscous; 

 greater and lesser wing-coverts yellowish white, forming two conspicuous wing-bars; under- 

 parts white, washed with pale yellowish and slightly tinged with greenish on the breast; the 

 throat, and frequently the middle of the belly, pure white; upper mandible black, lower man- 

 dible whitish or flesh-colored; second to fourth primaries of about equal length, the first and 

 fifth shorter and also of equal length. Im. Upperparts greener; underparts more tinged with 

 yellow; wing-bars and outer edges of the tips of the secondaries ochraceous-buff. L., 5.75; W., 

 2.85; T., 2.35; B. from N., .36. 



FIG. 163. ACADIAN FLYCATCHER. 



Remarks. This species has the upperparts fully as olive-green as the Yellow-bellied Fly- 

 catcher, but the underparts are never entirely yellow, and the throat is always white. (Chap., 

 Birds of E. N. A.) 



Range in United States. Eastern States, including the Mississippi Valley, in summer; not 

 found in the extreme northern States. 



Range in North Carolina. Whole State in summer, breeding wherever found. 



The Acadian Flycatcher is the only one of its genus which is generally common 

 in this State. It arrives from its winter sojourn in Mexico or South America 



