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CLXIV. CONTOPUS Cabanis. 1855. 

 459. Olive-sided Flycatcher. 



Contopus borealis (Swains.) Baird. 1858. 



One shot at Nenortatik, Greenland, 29th August, 1840, and 

 sent to Copenhagen. {Arct Man.) Audubon, Vol. I., p. 252, 

 records it from the coast of Labrador. {Packard^ One observed 

 on Moose River near Moose Factory, James Bay, June 4th, 1896 

 {Spreadborough.) A common summer resident in Nova Scotia 

 {Downs.) Rather common at Baddeck and Margaree, Cape 

 Breton Island, N.S.;, July, 1898; breeding in woods at Brackley 

 Point, Prince Edward Island, July, 1888. {Macoun.) One speci- 

 men was observed at Souris, Prince Edward Island. Prof. Earle 

 was familiar with it. {Dwight.) A common summer resident in 

 New Brunswick. i^Chamberlain^ Summer resident at Scotch 

 Lake, York Co., N.B.; but not common ; members of the same 

 family keep together when going south. (W. H. Moore.) Com- 

 mon in the Restigo^uche valley, N.B, {Brittain & Cox.) A single 

 specimen noted at Plaster Cove, Cape Breton Island on June 23rd. 

 (Brewster.) Common summer resident in Quebec. {Dionne.) A 

 scarce sunimer resident at Montreal. Breeds in Mount Royal 

 Park ; arrives about May 8th and leaves about August 20th. 

 (Wintle) 



A summer resident in the Ottawa district, but rare. {Ottawa 

 Naturalist, Vol. V.) Rare at Toronto ; but common in Muskoka 

 and Parry Sound districts. In the spring of 1894 I found this 

 flycatcher not uncommon in the country between Kearney and 

 Sand Lake ; they frequented the tops of the very tallest dead 

 trees. {J. H. Fleming.) Quite an uncommon bird at Toronto. I 

 took one on August 17th, 1897, and saw one during the past fall 

 (1900) ; two were taken at Port Credit, 27th August, 1894, by Mr. 

 Massey ; I have seen three or four other specimens during the 

 last four or five years. (/. Hughes-Samuel.) A very rare sum- 

 mer migrant near London, Ont., but a common breeder in 

 North Bruce. {W. E. Saunders^ Abundant and breeding every- 

 where in swamps in Algonquin Park, Ont., June, 1900. {Spread- 

 borough^ Observed but once, on July 4th, 1900, in a swamp bor- 

 dering Trout River, between Oxford House and Knee Lake, 

 Keewatin, {Prebles.) 



A common summer resident of woodlands throughout northern 

 Manitoba. On July 26th, 1883, in the tamarac swamp beyond 



