Flycatchers SONGLESS BIRDS. 



Olive-sided Flycatcher: Contopus borealis. 



Length: 7.50 inches. 



Male and Female : Dark brown, deepest on head, olive-gray sides. 

 Wings brown, with some white tips. Chin, throat, and centre 

 of breast yellowish white. Bill, black above, yellowish below. 

 Feet black. 



Note : " — wheo, — wheo, O — wheo 1 " 



Season : In migrations ; May and September. 



Breeds : From higher and mountainous parts of the United States 

 northward. 



Nest : Made of small twigs, grass, and fibres ; very crude and shape- 

 less ; saddled on a high horizontal branch. 



Eggs : 4-5, buff- white, spotted thickly with reddish brown. 



Bange : North America ; in winter, south to Central America and 

 Colombia. 



The Olive-sided Flycatcher is an irregular migrant, which 

 is sometimes rarest in spring and sometimes in autumn. I 

 think, however, that it is rather plentiful in this neighbour- 

 hood in early September, for I have seen it repeatedly with 

 miscellaneous flocks of Flycatchers in the ranks of the early 

 returning migrants. 



Wood Pewee: Contopus virens. 



Plate 42. Fig. 2. 

 Length: 6-6.50 inches. 

 Male and Female : Dusky olive-brown above, darkest on head, throat 



paler, middle of belly yellowish, growing lighter below. White 



eye ring and two whitish wing bars. Feet and bill dusky or 



black. 

 Note : " Pewee-a, — peweea, peer 1 " — as much a song as that of many 



birds classified as Song-birds. 

 Season : May to October. 

 Breeds : Throughout its range. 

 Nest : Flat ; its evenly rounded edge stuccoed with lichens like that 



of the Hummingbird ; hardly to be distinguished from the bough 



on which it is saddled. 

 Eggs : Creamy- white, with a wreath of brown and lilac spots on the 



larger end. 

 Range : Eastern North America to the Plains, and from southern 



Canada southward. 



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