. The land-birds and game-birds of New England; with descriptions of the birds, their nests and eggs, their habits and notes, with illustrations; . red-dish brown at the largerend. Dr. Brewer de-scribes others as white, marked almost entirely about thelarger end with larger and well defined spots and blotches ofpurplish brown. c. The Traills Flycatchers are common summer residentsin many parts of northern New England, and of western Mas-sachusetts, but near Boston they are very rare. They aremost common in the latter part of May, when they may occa-sionally be seen in copses, thickets, and swa
. The land-birds and game-birds of New England; with descriptions of the birds, their nests and eggs, their habits and notes, with illustrations; . red-dish brown at the largerend. Dr. Brewer de-scribes others as white, marked almost entirely about thelarger end with larger and well defined spots and blotches ofpurplish brown. c. The Traills Flycatchers are common summer residentsin many parts of northern New England, and of western Mas-sachusetts, but near Boston they are very rare. They aremost common in the latter part of May, when they may occa-sionally be seen in copses, thickets, and swampy are then migrating, and are often entirely silent. Nearlyall 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,Eng-land, also breeding not uncommon- but only in very small numbers, duiingly in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, the spring migrations in late May andand in the adjoining elevated portions early June. — W. Fig. 15. Trains Flycatcher, (i) FLYCATCHERS. 295 bushy, swampy fields. Unlike many other Flycatchers, theyare somewhat shy of mans approach. They usually remainwithin fifteen feet of the ground, but they sometimes takeboth higher and longer flights than I have ever known theLeast Flycatchers to take. They are in fact much lessstationary than most of their relations, though their generalhabits are the same. They live much on the edges of thewoods, and often occur along the roadsides, where, from thetops of the bushes and lower trees, they utter their peculiarnotes. I have been led, partly from observations on thisspecies, to believe that probably the line separating tYfofauncR(such as the Alleghanian and Canadian ^^^) can never be pre-cisely defined, since birds of the same district vary considerablyin their latitudinal range. This is the ca
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