e 5, Fig. 15_

Head slightly crested, somewhat darker than body.
In the fall the underparts are tinged with yellow.
L. 7.

_Range._ Eastern North America; nests from
northern Mississippi and northwestern Georgia to
Canada; winters from South Carolina to Mexico. The
only Flycatcher to winter in the eastern United
States and hence the first to reach us in the
spring.

Washington, common S.R., Feb. 25-Oct.;
occasionally winters. Ossining, common S.R., Mch.
14-Oct. 29. Cambridge, common T.V., and not
uncommon S.R., Mch. 25-Oct. 10. N. Ohio, common
S.R., Mch. 14-Oct. 15. Glen Ellyn, S.R., Mch.
13-Oct. 6. SE. Minn., common S.R., Mch. 22-Oct.
11.

The Phoebe is the best known member of a group of small Flycatchers
which the beginner, and not infrequently the advanced student, names
with more or less uncertainty. Fortunately for the field student, and as
if to compensate for their close resemblance in plumage, they all
possess distinctive, quite unlike, and easily recognizable calls, and
consequently can readily be identified by their voices if not by their
colors.

The Phoebe shows so marked a fondness for our society, nesting under
our piazzas, in barns or outbuildings, and calls his _pewit-phoebe_ so
plainly, wagging his tail the while in a friendly, sociable kind of a
way, that there is never any doubt about his identity; but we will not
make the acquaintance of his less common, less confiding relatives so
readily.

The Phoebe's 4-6 white eggs (rarely with a few brown spots) are laid
the latter half of April.

OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER

_Nuttalornis borealis. Case 8, Fig. 59_

With the general appearance of a large Phoebe,
but with the breast and sides the color of the
back, and a tuft of white feathers on each flank.
L. 7-1/2.

_Range._ North America; nests from northern New
England northward (southward in the Alleghanies to
North Carolina); winters in the tropics.

Washington, casual T.V. Ossining, tolerably common
T.V., May 20; Aug. 15-Sept. 16. Cambridge, rare
T.V., May 20-June 6; formerly not uncommon S.R.,
one Sept. record. Glen Ellyn, not common T.V., May
13-June 11; Aug. 11-Sept. 15. SE. Minn., common
T.V., May 1