The Ash-throated Flycatcher 
destination, pass in leisurely fashion for at least a month thereafter. 
Silently they flit from station to station over the boundless chaparral 
or else plunge into its depths. Any wayside weed, any fence rail, may 
harbor one, and the aspic cholla of the desert is as good a place as any 
for the tolerant Ash-throat. 
Being privileged to spend the last days of May and the first of 
Taken in Riverside County 
Photo by the Author 
CHAPARRAL—TYPICAL RANGE OF THE ASH-THROAT 
early June on the Farallon Islands in the season of 1911, I witnessed 
a remarkable arrival of migrants, “bird waves,” which had slightly 
overshot their mark. Some of the Warblers were, frankly, lost; but the 
Flycatchers, of which there were five species, changed in character from 
day to day, so that one felt sure that it was only a normal movement 
abnormally exposed, which he was witnessing. Two Ash-throated 
Flycatchers were seen on the first day of June, and a number of Olive¬ 
sided Flycatchers on the day following. Ash-throated Flycatchers 
were still passing through the desert near Palm Springs on the 28th 
of May, 1913. 
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