. The land-birds and game-birds of New England : with descriptions of the birds, their nests and eggs, their habits and notes . Birds. 284 LAND-BIKDS AND GAME-BIRDS V. EMPIDONAX (A) TRAiLLi. Traill's Flycatcher. (Rare in Eastern Massachusetts; most common in the latter part of May.) (a). Six inches long, or less. Tail, even; crown-feathers, erectile, dark-centred; bill, not black. Above, dark olivO'^ green, usually tinged with brown. Beneath, white, shaded with the color of the back on the sides, with grayish on the breast, and with yellow behind. Eye-ring, and two wing-bars, (yellowish) white
. The land-birds and game-birds of New England : with descriptions of the birds, their nests and eggs, their habits and notes . Birds. 284 LAND-BIKDS AND GAME-BIRDS V. EMPIDONAX (A) TRAiLLi. Traill's Flycatcher. (Rare in Eastern Massachusetts; most common in the latter part of May.) (a). Six inches long, or less. Tail, even; crown-feathers, erectile, dark-centred; bill, not black. Above, dark olivO'^ green, usually tinged with brown. Beneath, white, shaded with the color of the back on the sides, with grayish on the breast, and with yellow behind. Eye-ring, and two wing-bars, (yellowish) white. (&). The nest of this species is usually placed, not far from the ground, in a swamp or near a brook, and fre- quently in an alder-bush. It is composed of grasses, stalks of weeds, and nar- row strips of barks. Sev- eral eggs which I obtained among the White Moun- tains average about"65 X â 50 of an inch, and are creamy, or pale buff, with » a few dots of reddish^ brown at the larger end. Dr. Brewer describes oth- ers as white, "marked al- most entirely about the larger end with larger and well-de- fined spots and blotches of ; (c). The Traill's Flycatchers are common summer-residents in many parts of northern New England, and of Western Mas- sachusetts, but near Boston they are very rare. They are most common in the latter part of May, when they may occa- sionally be seen in copses, thickets, and swampy woodland. They are then migrating, and are often entirely silent. Nearly all pass on to the northward. Among the White Mountains, they frequent wet woodland, sheltered water-courses, and bushy,. Fig. 15. Traill's Flycateher (i).. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Minot, Henry Davis, 1859-1890. Salem, Mass. : Naturalist's Agency
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