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Title: A guide to the birds of New England and eastern New York; containing a key for each season and short descriptions of over 250 species, with particular reference to their appearance in the field
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Hoffmann, Ralph, 1870-1932
Subjects: Birds Birds
Publisher: Boston New York Houghton, Mifflin and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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open spaces in which it can hunt. Itsits on some fairly exposed perch, in the manner character-istic of flycatchers, and makes constant sallies into the air,down over the grass, or even against the trunks of trees. The male in spring and early summer is a constant singer,snapping out the syllables se-bic, w^ith a violent jerk of hishead and a quiver of the tail. Both sexes, after alighting,often utter a little gurgling note, and quiver wings and tail.The call-note is ivhit. Just before dusk the male often fliesup from some tree near the nest, and delivers a flight-song,in w^hich the call-note, whit, and the ordinary song, se-bic,are repeated many times. (See also following species.) Alder Flycatcher. Empidonax traillii alnorum6.09 Ad. — Upper parts dark olive-green, often with a tinge ofbrown; under parts white, washed with yellowish on the helly;luing-bars hroiunish-gray. Nest, in crotch of small bush near the ground, made of coarsermaterial than the Chebecs. Eggs, spotted. ^i! i-
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/^c/// ^f^/ij^^^ LEAST FI,Vt\\l\llKR GREEN-CRESTED FLYCATCHER 203 The Alder Flycatcher has been found breeding in northernNew Jersey, in northwestern Connecticut, and in easternMassachusetts, but outside the Canadian Zone it occurschiefly as a regular but rare migrant late in May or veryearly in June. From the edge of the Canadian area north-ward it is a rather common summer resident, frequentingalder thickets along streams and swampy places, as well aswet clearings and ill-drained hillsides. Its song is like the syllables qui-dee, ending with amarked ee instead of the sharp ic of the Chebec. Thesinger either mounts an exposed perch, where he may beseen jerking his head violently, or as often sings concealedin the leafy twigs. Where the birds are common, the songis heard as late as the first week in August, but it is notregular after the middle of July. The call-note is a sharppip. Its appearance in the field is so like the Least Flycatcherthat only a very well-trained eye can disting

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