. The land-birds and game-birds of New England; with descriptions of the birds, their nests and eggs, their habits and notes, with illustrations;. Birds. 294 LAND-BIRDS. 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 olive 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. 6. The nest of this species is usually placed not fa
. The land-birds and game-birds of New England; with descriptions of the birds, their nests and eggs, their habits and notes, with illustrations;. Birds. 294 LAND-BIRDS. 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 olive 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. 6. 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 bark. Sev- eral eggs which I got among the White Moun- tains average about .65 X -50 of an inch, and are creamy, or pale buff, with a few dots of red- dish brown at the larger end. Dr. Brewer de- scribes others as white, "marked almost entirely about the larger end with larger and well defined spots and blotches of purplish ; 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 occar 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 * A common summer resident at of northwestern Connecticut. In east- most suitable localities in northern New ern Massachusetts it occurs regularly, England, also hreeding not uncommon- but only in very small numbers, during^ ly in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, the spring migrations in late May and and in the adjoining elevated portions early June. — W. Fig. 15. TraiU's Flycatcher, (i). Please note that these images are extracte
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