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ing the most beautiful lake in the whole world, and listened 
to the unostentatious pe-wee, pe-wee of the Phoebe Bird for an 
hour at a time endeavoring to comprehend the lessons of its 
sweet contentment with its lot however so humble it be 
wherein consists all true human happiness. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTERS. 
Sides of breast and upper parts dull olive-brown, fading 
slightly towards the tail; top and sides of head dark brown; 
a few dull white feathers on the eyelids; lower parts dull yel- 
lowish- white, mixed with brown on the chin, and in some indi- 
viduals across the breast; quills brown, the outer primary. 
secondaries, and tertials edged with dull white; in some 
individuals the greater faintly edged with dull white; tail brown, 
outer edge of lateral feather dull white, outer edges of rest like 
the back; tibize brown; bill and feet black; bill slender, edges 
nearly straight; tail rather broad and slightly forked, third 
quill longest, second and fourth nearly equal, the first shorter 
than the sixth. 
Length, 7; wing, 3.42; tail, 3.30. 
Habitat, eastern North America, from the British Provinces. 
south to eastern Mexico and Cuba, wintering from the South 
Atlantic and Gulf states southward. 
CONTOPUS BOREALIS (Swainson). (459.) 
OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER. 
In the spring of 1874, my son, Dr. R. W. Hatch, obtained the 
first specimen of this species in a grove of forest. trees within 
two or three miles of the city. I have since found them quite 
numerous during the time of migration, but by no means so 
afterwards. They reach here about the tirst of May generally. 
I have once found them as early as April 26th, but in several 
years it has been from one week to ten days later when I 
caught my first glimpse of them, although in any case they 
might have been here some time before I saw them, for their 
habits make it nececsary that they should be carefully sought 
in restricted localities. In the year following my son’s discovery 
of the species, Lobtained the nest and egg in a dry larch swamp 
near to where the bird had first been found, a spot since embraced 
in the beautiful Lakewood cemetery, on the shores and over- 
looking one of our peerless suburban lakes. The nest, very 
characteristic of the flycatchers, was constructed of much the 
same materials as is employed in the structure of the king- 
birds’, and was placed on a horizontal limb of a medium sized 
larch, at least a yard from the trunk and about fifteen feet 
