wn in the crotch of
one of the bushes among which it lives and lays 3-4 white, brown-spotted
eggs in June.

LEAST FLYCATCHER

_Empidonax minimus. Case 6, Fig. 44_

Smallest of the Flycatchers; like the Alder
Flycatcher its back is olive-brown rather than
olive-green; no evident yellow on the underparts.
L. 5-1/2.

_Range._ Eastern North America; nests from Iowa,
Pennsylvania and New Jersey to Canada; winters in
the tropics.

Washington, common T.V., Apl. 20-May 20; Aug.
13-Sept. 15. Ossining, tolerably common S.R., Apl.
25-Aug. 26. Cambridge, very common S.R., May
1-Aug. 25. N. Ohio, common T.V. Apl. 15-May 25;
Aug. 25-Oct. 1; rare in summer. Glen Ellyn, not
common S.R., chiefly T.V., May 4-Sept. 24. SE.
Minn., common S.R., Apl. 30-Sept. 13.

A Flycatcher of lawns and orchard, seldom going far from the tree in
which its nest with its white eggs is placed. A dry-voiced little bird
whose unmusical, but distinctly uttered _chebec, chebec_ makes up in
character what it lacks in sweetness. Between whiles he swings out for a
passing insect only to call _chebec, chebec, chebec_ when he returns to
his perch.

LARKS. FAMILY ALAUDIDAE

PRAIRIE HORNED LARK

_Otocoris alpestris praticola. Case 2, Fig. 42_

Note the long hind-toe nail (or the track it
leaves), the little feathered 'horns,' the black
patch on cheeks and breast (less evident in
winter). Smaller than the Northern Horned Lark,
which visits the United States only in winter,
with the line over the eye white, and throat but
faintly tinged with yellow. L. 7-1/4.

_Range._ Nests in the Upper Mississippi Valley
from Missouri and in the Atlantic States
(locally), from Connecticut northward; winters
southward to Texas and Georgia. The Horned Lark
(_Otocoris alpestris alpestris_), is a more
northern race, nesting in the Arctic regions and
migrating southward as far as Ohio and rarely
Georgia, when it is often associated with the
resident Prairie Horned Lark. It is larger than
that race (L. 7-3/4) and has the throat and line
over the eye yellow.

Washington, common W.V., Aug. 11-Apl. Cambridge,
one record. N. Ohio,