FLYCATCHERS: OLIVACEOUS FLYCATCHER 
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frequently heard giving their loud calls, a pair were busy house hunting. 
They appeared to be greatly taken by a hole in a juniper that was un¬ 
fortunately only two or three inches deep. Again and again, they came 
back to it, putting in their heads and necks, apparently unable to accept 
the fact that they could go in no farther. 
In the neighborhood of Santa Fe, Mr. Jensen has found a few pairs 
nesting in Bluebird boxes on pinyon pines. He has known of several nests 
being destroyed by pack-rats and chipmunks. 
Additional Literature.— Gillespie, J. A., Bird-Lore, XXVI, 237-238, 1924 
(rewards of bird banding). 
OLIVACEOUS FLYCATCHER: Myiarchus l&wrencei olivascens Ridgway 
Description. — Length: 7-7.3 inches, wing 2.9-3.2, tail 3-3.2, bill from nostril.4-.5, 
tarsus .7. Adults: Head and hack grayish olive, tail usually without cinnamon-rufous 
edgings , wings with only pale cinnamon on inner primaries; throat and breast ash-gray 
in sharp contrast to primrose-yellow of rest of underparts. Young: Upperparts brown, 
underparts paler, wings and tail feathers with rusty edgings. 
Range. —Upper Sonoran Zone in mountains of southern Arizona and southwest¬ 
ern New Mexico south through western Mexico to Oaxaca. Recorded from 
Colorado. 
State Records. —During the Mexican Boundary Survey, two specimens of the 
Olivaceous Flycatcher were taken July 13 and 17, 1892, in the San Luis Mountains 
(Mearns). Two others had been taken the earlier part of the month just south of the 
line, so it is evidently a regular summer visitant to extreme southwestern New 
Mexico, as it is to the neighboring parts of Arizona. These are the only records for 
the State.—W. W. Cooke. 
Nest. —In natural cavities or old woodpecker holes, 20-50 feet from the ground; 
made, in two recorded cases, of rabbit fur and feathers. Eggs: Similar to those of 
the Ash-throated Flycatcher but smaller, with finer markings. 
General Habits.— Scarcely larger than the Phoebe, the well-named 
little Olivaceous Flycatcher, which Mr. Swarth found in the Huachuca 
Mountains, might easily be overlooked except for its mournful, long- 
drawn note. As Mr. Swarth says, ‘‘Seldom venturing into open ground, 
it loves the dense, impenetrable scrub oak thickets of the hillsides better 
than any other place, though also found along the canyon streams where- 
ever the trees grow thick enough to prevent the sun from penetrating” 
(1904, pp. 22-23). 
Additional Literature. — Bendire, Charles, Life Histories of North American 
Birds, 270-271,1895.— Howard, 0. W., Bull. Cooper Orn. Club, I, 104-105, 1899. 
SULPHUR-BELLIED FLYCATCHER: Myiodynastes luteiventris Sclater 
Description. — Length: About 7.7-8 inches, wing 4.2-4.6, tail 3.3-3.0, bill 
.8-.9. Bill very broad. Adults: Upperparts strikingly streaked with black, ground 
color mainly olive or brown; crown with large concealed bright yellow patch, upper 
tail coverts and tail extensively rufous, the middle tail feathers with broad dusky 
stripe; wings dusky, feathers largely edged with lighter, wing bars yellowish, wing 
linings and underparts sulphur-yellow, heavily streaked with black except on middle 
