Flycatcher: SONGLESS BIRDS.

Olive-sided Flycatcher: Contapus borealis.

Length: 7.50 inches.

Male and Female: Dark brown, deepest on head, olivagray sides. Wings brown, with some white tips. 0 in, mat, and centre of breast yellowish white. Bill, black above, yellowish below. Feet black.

Note: “O—wheo, 0—wheo, O—wheo ! "

Season: In migrations; May and September.

Breeds: From higher and mountainous parts of the United States HOT .

Nest: Made of small twigs, grass, and fibres; very crude and shape- less ; saddled on a high horizontal branch.

Eggs: 4—5, buff-white, spotted thickly with reddish brown.

Range: North America; in winter, south to Central America and Colombia. »

The Olive-sided Flycatcher is an irregular migrant, which is sometimes rarest in spring and sometimes in autumn. I think, however, that it is rather plentiful in this neighbour- hood in early September, for I have seen it repeatedly with miscellaneous flocks of Flycatchers in the ranks of the early returning migrants.

Wood Pewee: Contopus virens.

Pure 42. FIG. 2. Length: 6—6.50 inches. Male and Female: Dusky olive-brown above, darkest on head, throat paler, middle of belly yellowish, growing lighter below. White eye ring and two whitish wing bars. Feet and bill dusky or

blac .

Nate : “ Pewee—a,——peweea, peer l " —a.s much asong as that of many birds classified as Song—birds.

Season: May to October.

Breeds: Throughout its range.

Nest: Flat ; its evenly rounded edge stuccoed with lichens like that

' ' ‘ - ha, ‘ ' ' ’ from the hough

on which it is saddled.

Eggs : Creamy-white, with a wreath of brown and lilac spots on the larger end.

Range: Eastern North America to the Plains, and from southern Canada southward.

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