42 FLYCATCHERS 



Washington, irregularly common T. V., May 8-May 28; Aug. 

 16-Sept. 17. Ossining, rare T. V., May 19-May 31; Aug. 29. 

 Cambridge, rare T. V., May 28-June 6; Aug.; occasional in 

 summer. 



Traill's Flycatcher (E.t.traitti), a slightly browaer bird is the 

 Mississippi Valley form. N. Ohio, common S. R., May 7-Sept. 

 10. Glen Ellyn, quite common .S. R., May 14-Sept. 19. S. B. 

 Minn., common S. R., May 6- Aug. 10. 



A rare recluse of the alders who, traveling silently 

 between his s umm er and his winter homes, makes few 

 friends among men. Dwight describes its call note as 

 "a single pep," and its song as ee-zee-e-up, resembling 

 that of the Acadian. The bird places the nest low down 

 in the crotch of one of the bushes among which it lives 

 and lays 3-4 white, brown-spotted eggs in June. 



A LEAST FLYCATCHER 

 Empidonax minimus. Case 6, Fig. 44. 



Smallest of the Flycatchers; like the Adler Flycatcher its 

 back is olive-brown rather tthan] olive-green; no evident yellow 

 on the underparts. L. 5 J. 



Range. Eastern North America; nests from Iowa, Pennsyl- 

 vania and New Jersey to Canada; winters in the tropics. 



Washington, common T. V., Apl. 20— May 20; Aug. 13-Sept. 15. 

 Ossining, tolerably common S. R., Apl. 25-Aug. 26. Cambridge, 

 very common S. R., May 1— Aug. 25. N. Ohio, common T. V. 

 Apl. 15-May 25; Aug. 25-Oct. 1; rare in summer. Glen Ellyn, 

 not common S. R., chiefly T. V., May 4-Sept. 24. SE. Minn., 

 common S. R., Apl. 30-Sept. 13. 



A Flycatcher of lawns and orchard, seldom going far 

 from the tree in which its nest with its white eggs is 

 placed. A dry-voiced little bird whose unmusical, but 

 distinctly uttered chebic, chebec makes up in character 

 what it lacks in sweetness. Between whiles he swings 

 out for a passing insect only to call chebic, chebic, chebic 

 when he returns to his perch. 



