The Migration of Flycatchers 



FOURTH PAPER 



Compiled by Professor W. W. Cooke, Chiefly from Data 

 in the Biological Survey 



With Drawings by Louis Agassiz Fuertes and Bruce Horsfall 



YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHER 



This species winters south of the United States and is one of the latest 

 spring migrants. It is scarcely known in the southeastern United States south 

 of Virginia and east of the Allegheny mountains. 



SPRING MIGRATION 



PLACE 



Number 



of years' 



record 



^Washington, D. C 



Central Massachusetts . . . 



Monadnock, N. H 



Northern Vermont 



Southern Maine 



St. John, N. B 



Lake Mistassini, Que. . . . 



Bayou Sara, La 



Biloxi, Miss 



Athens, Tenn 



Lexington, Ky 



St. Louis, Mo 



Chicago, 111 



Oberlin, Ohio 



Ottawa, Ont 



Grinnell, la 



Lanesboro, Minn 



Athabaska Lake, Alberta 



16 

 3 

 3 

 5 

 6 



Average date of 

 spring arrival 



May 14 

 May 19 



May 20 

 May 20 

 May 26 

 May 25 



May 16 

 May 15 



May 23 

 May 18 

 May 23 



Earliest date of 

 spring arrival 



May 

 May 

 May 



May 

 May 

 May 



June 

 April 

 April 

 April 

 May 

 May 

 May 

 May 

 May 

 May 

 May 



9, 1902 



15, 1886 



18, 1897 



16, 1897 

 23, 1900 



19, 1889 

 2, 1885 

 26, 1887 

 30, 1904 



2S> I9°S 

 I, I903 



II, I90O 



9, 1904 



19, 1906 



14, 1886 



19, 1872 



June 3, 1901 



The average date of the last seen in spring at Washington, D. C, is May 26, 

 latest, May 30, 1891; Chicago, 111., average May 24, latest May 28, 1906. 



FALL MIGRATION 



A very early fall migrant was seen July 28, 1859, at Washington, D. C, where 

 the average of arrival date in the fall is August 17; the average of the last seen 

 at St. John, N. B., is September 2, latest September 4, 1892; average at 

 Washington, D. C, September 16, latest October 6, 1881; last at Biloxi, Miss., 

 October 16, 1903. Some unusually late birds were noted November 29, 1876, at 

 Reading, Mass., and December 1, 1876, at Newton, Mass. 



GREEN-CRESTED FLYCATCHER 



This is the only one of the small Flycatchers that breeds in the southeastern 

 United States. It winters south of the United States, and the following dates 



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