186 THE BIRDS 
[465]. LHmpidonax virescens (Vieillot). Acadian 
Flycatcher. 
[Green-crested Flycatcher ]. 
Raw North America and northern South 
America. Breeds from upper limit of Carolinian zone in 
northeastern Nebraska, central Iowa, Michigan, southern 
Ontario, New York, Connecticut (casually), and Massa- 
chusetts (one instance) south to southern Texas, the Gulf 
States, and northern Florida; migrates through Yucatan 
and Central America and winters in Colombia and 
Ecuador; casual in Massachusetts; accidental in the 
Bahamas and Cuba in migrations. 
This bird, commonly known as the Green-crested Fly- 
catcher, is probably the most common one of the family 
within our limits. Breeding, as it sometimes does, in 
large colonies, besides individual pairs scattered over the 
whole area, I feel I am making no mistake by stating it 
is more numerous than the two preceding species, if not 
all. They seem to have a fondness for the juniper or 
cypress foliage, and as these are always in close proximity 
to water, resident birds are generally near-by. Like the 
Parula Warbler (Compsothlypis americana americana), 
they procure much of their insect food around these trees 
and dense woods, being more of a bird of the latter than 
open woodland. Their single sharp note easily dis- 
tinguishes them from any other resident. The nest is 
placed on, or in, the fork of a limb near the extremity; a 
shallow, saucer-shaped affair, from three to forty feet 
above ground or water. It is composed sometimes of 
Spanish moss entirely when obtainable, other times of fine 
