372 BIRDS — TTBANNID^. 



Mr. Kirkpatrick in his series of articles in the Ohio Farmer, 1860. Mr. 

 Langdon, in 1877, gives it as a " rare migrant in spring," but in his Re- 

 vised List gives it as "doubtfully identified." 



The Olive-sided Flycatcher is much more common west than east of 

 the Mississippi. Numerous instances of their breeding in New England 

 are recorded. The nearest locality in which they are known to breed is 

 Lewis county, N. Y., where Mr. Merriam has taken the nest and finds 

 the birds not uncommon. It appears to be more numerous in New Eng- 

 land at present than formerly, but has not been found in many instances 

 south of New York. The Olive-sided Flycatcher frequents coniferous 

 woods, and the nest is usually placed in an evergreen tree. The eggs are 

 creamy white, marked about the greater end with a confluent ring of 

 purple, lavender, and brown spots, and much resemble, except in size, 

 .those of the next species. They measure .82 by .62. 



CoNTOPUs viRENS (L.) Cab. 



Wood I*ewee. 



Muscicapa virens, Kirtland, Ohio Geolog. Surv., 1838, 163. 



Tyrannus virens, Read, Fam. Visitor, iii, 1853, 359 ; Proo. Phila. Acad. Nat. Sci., vi, 1853, 



395. 

 Contopus virens, Kirkpatrick, Oliio Farmer, ix, 1860, 11 ; Whbaton, Ohio Agric. Kep. for 



1860, 362 ; Eeprint, 1861, 4 ; Food of Birds, etc., Ohio Agrio. Rep. for 1874, 568 ; Ke- 



print, 1875, 8. — Langdon, Cat. Birds of Gin., 1877, 10; Eevised List, Journ. Gin. Soo. 



Nat. Hist., i, 1879, 177 ; Eeprint, 11 ; Summer Birds, ib. iii, 1880, 225. 



Museicapa virens, LiNNiEUS, Syst. Nat., i, 1766, 357. 

 Tyrannus virens, Nuitaxl, Man., i, 1840, 316. 

 Contopus virens, Cabanis, J. f. O., iii, 1855, 479. 



Olivaceous brown, rather darker on the head, below with the sides washed with a 

 paler shade of the same nearly or c[uite across the breast ; the throat and belly whitish, 

 more or less tinged with dull yellowish ; under tail coverts the same, usually streaked 

 with dusky ; tail and wings blackish, the former unmarked, the inner quiUs edged and 

 the coverts tipped with whitish; feet and upper mandible black, under mandible 

 usually yellow, sometimes dusky. Spring specimens are purer olivaceous. Early fall 

 birds are brighter yellow below. In summer, before the now worn feathers are renewedj 

 quite brown and dingy vftitieh. Very young birds have the wing-bars and pale edging 

 of quills tinged with rusty, the feathers of the upper parts skirted, and the lower plum- 

 age tinged with the same ; but in any plumage the species may be known from all the 

 birds of the following genus by. these dimensions : Length, 6-6i ; wing, 3^-3-} ; tail, 

 3|-3; tarsns, middle toe and claw together hardly one inch, or evidently leas; tarsus, 

 about i, not longer than the bill. 



Habitat, Eastern United States and British Provinces, west to border of central 

 plains. South to New Grenada. Mexico. 



Abundant summer resident from May .to September. Frequents for- 

 ests, groves, orchards and gardens. The Wood Pewee is the latest arriv- 



