258 BIRDS 



nests now contain immaculate eggs. One or two, if not all 

 in the set of four or five, have light reddish specks, and the 

 background is creamy instead of pure white. Two or 

 three broods are reared in a season. 



OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER 



The Olive-sided Flycatchers, though comparatively rare 

 in all sections of the United States, still range over practi- 

 cally the entire continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific 

 and as far north as Greenland. Their breeding-grounds are 

 coniferous forests, usually in mountainous regions or low, 

 swampy woods. In the Great Lakes region the bird is less 

 common than in the New England States and through the 

 White and Green mountain regions of New Hampshire 

 and Vermont. In feeding these long-winged birds usually 

 resort to a high branch, from which they dart out after 

 every passing insect, returning to the same perch. 



The nest of moss and evergreen twigs is usually placed 

 high up in a clump of evergreen. The background of the 

 eggs is a beautiful deep creamy yellow, and the markings 

 appear in the form of specks and spots of purplish-brown 

 and lilac, particularly at the larger end. 



WOOD PEWEE 



A sober-plumaged little bird common in eastern North 

 America from the Gulf States northward into the southern 

 half of Canada, while tiie range in latitude is from the 

 Atlantic to the great plains, wintering in Central America. 



