Painted

1912

Published

1931

Volume

7

Plate

459

Oliveside Flycatcher

Nuttallornis borealis

Altho ranging over the greater part of North America, the OLIVESIDE is nowhere common except in a few favored locations. They seem to select a certain territory outside of which they are rare or unknown. I have seen them only four times in fifty years. A pair nested on our hillside in 1922 and the emphatic notes pe-pee were heard until the middle of July. I often saw their stocky forms on the tip of a wild cherry tree.

BREEDING

NEST: located on branches or in crotch of coniferous tree, usually 40 to 50 feet up, built of vegetable down, moss, grass and bark.

EGGS: 3 or 4; creamy white wreathed around large end with lilac and brown spots.

RANGE

North America. North to Alaska, south to Texas.

Bur Oak

Quercus macrocarpa

A tree up to 150 feet high, distributed from Nova Scotia to Texas. West to Manitoba and Kansas.

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