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 Flycatcher: SONGLESS BIRDS.

Nest: Close to the earth in swampy ground, set in a stump or up- turned root; constructed of mosses and thick-walled and bulky, like the Phoebe's

Eggs .- White, spotted.

Range: Eastern North America to the Plains, and from southern Labrador south through eastern Mexico to Panama.

The Yellow-bellied Flycatcher is noted as a rare migrant in this vicinity; the only one that I have identiﬁed with eer- tainty in the spring migration was killed by ﬂying against a Wire trellis in the garden, but, like the last species, they are more locally abundant in autumn. They sometimes breed in northern Pennsylvania, in tangled thickets near streams.

They are late birds in the spring, and do not arrive in southern New England, en route for their breeding-haunts, until the middle of May.

Acadian Flycatcher: Empidonam acadicua.

Length: 6.75—6.25 inches.

Male and Female: Above dull olive-green. Below yellowish, turning to light gray on throat and belly. White eye ring. Bill brown above, pale below; feet brown.

Note: “Hick up! Hick up i "

Season: Summer resident, May to September.

Breeds: From Florida to southern Connecticut and Manitoba.

Nest .- Shallow and loosely built, near the end of a slim horizontal branch; made of grass, blossoms, and bark.

Eggs : Cream white, wreathed at the larger and.

Range: Eastern United States, chieﬂy southward; west to the Plains, south to Cuba and Costa Rica.

This little Flycatcher has a southerly range, only com- ing over the New England border in summer; there are but two breeding-records of it in Connecticut, one being Greenwich, Conn., Where a nest and young were found in June, 1893. It is a common resident along the Hudson as far north as Sing Sing, and Dr. Warren found it breeding freely about West Chester, Penn, where he says the majority

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