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lowing the opinions of the foregoing observers, Mrs. Olive Thorne 

 Miller ('02, p. 289) offers the following description: "The ordi- 

 nary song, as I know it, consists of two notes much like the 

 Chebec's. It is in the hoarse tone of the Phoebe, and is jerked 

 out with a backward jerk of the head, after the manner of the Least 

 Flycatcher, and to my ear, it sounds like red-dy sometimes — ■ but 

 not by any means generally." I am glad that Mrs. Miller suggests 

 this representation of the call, for it appears that she recog- 

 nizes the accentuation on the first syllable of the song, which 

 to my ear, is very distinct, as in the case of the Least Flycatcher. 

 Toward the latter part of the summer season, the Alder Flycatcher 

 frequently expresses the exuberance of its emotions in a hurried 

 chattering, apparently a running together of several of its cus- 

 tomary song notes and calls, the performance constituting an 

 attempt at musical production more ambitious than the flycatchers 

 are usually supposed to undertake. At any rate the Alder Fly- 

 catcher, as it seeks food among the saplings, almost constantly 

 utters its cry, resembling the syllables cri ik enunciated emphatically 

 and impatiently ; and in visiting its nest with food for its young, 

 it is noisy and energetic in its chattering and scolding, like the large 

 Flycatchers at their nests. 



Yellow-bellied Flycatcher. Empidonax Uativentris (W. M. 



& S. F. Baird) 



Length S-6. Above, bright, olive-green ; below, greenish yellow, brighter 

 on the belly. 



The Yellow-bellied Flycatcher was found at Cranberry Lake 

 inhabiting a secluded portion of the Bog forest within a few steps 

 of the margin where it opened upon the Burn. It was where the 

 drainage was somewhat interrupted, causing a more prolific spot 

 of second growth clustered with alders, and with one particular 

 little nook of open Sphagnum enclosed by the typical vegetation. 

 From that little nook in the Bog forest the dreamy call of this 

 flycatcher lured me into its dull retreat where it was feeding* its 

 young recently from the nest as the fledglings lurked among the 

 shaded alders. The call notes of this flycatcher consist of two 

 syllables accented on the second, resembling the combination puh-ec, 

 the second portion somewhat prolonged. It is a sweet, plaintive 

 call, one of the sounds that make the Bog worth while, even in 

 the face of the horde of insect pests that tormented me while I 

 peered and ogled in my attempts to study the activities of this 

 interesting hermit. 



Wood Pewee. Myiochanes virens (Linn.) 



Length 6.5. Above, dark olive, crown blackish; below dusky; throat 

 white, belly yellowish. 



The Wood Pewee inhabits the Partial Clearing and the dry open 

 woods. For this species there should be broken woodland, with 

 scattered mature trees, preferably hardwoods, though it does not 

 avoid a lookout station on dead branches of a conifer. In its 



