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Title: Birdcraft : a field book of two hundred song, game, and water birds
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Wright, Mabel Osgood, 1859-1934 Fuertes, Louis Agassiz, 1874-1927
Subjects: Birds -- United States
Publisher: New York : Macmillan Co.
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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Acadian Flycatcher: Einpidonax acadicus. Length: 5.75-6.25 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 ! 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 end.Mange: 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 arebut two breeding-records of it in Connecticut, one beingGreenwich, Conn., where a nest and young were found inJune, 1893. It is a common resident along the Hudson asfar north as Sing Sing, and Dr. Warren found it breedingfreely about West Chester, Penn., where he says the majority 188
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I C <=^ SONGLESS BIRDS. Flycatchera of nests were made entirely of blossoms, being rarely morethan eight or ten feet from the ground, and so open at thebottom that the eggs could be seen from underneath. Healso says that it is a common resident of Pennsylvania fromMay until late September, at which season it ekes out itsinsect diet with berries. Its nest is variously described as a light hammock swungbetween forks, and a tuft of hay caught by the limb froma load driven under it. Least Flycatcher: Empidonax minimus* Length: 5-5.50 inches. Male and Female : Olive-gray, brightest on the head, paler on wings and rump. Whitish eye ring, and wing-bars. Breast whitish, growing more yellow toward vent. Bill dusky. Feet black.Note: Che-becl Chebec ! (Coues.)Season : Common summer resident; May to late September.Breeds: From Pennsylvania northward.Nest: In upright crotch of tree or bush, substantial and well cupped. Materials varying with the location, plant fibres and weeds, lined with down

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