Below is what I have been able to find on the web about records of Western / Pacific Slope / Cordilleran Flycatcher from eastern states. Roy Harvey Beacon Falls, CT New Jersey has one record from 1981. This was before Western Flycatcher was split into Pacific Slope Flycatcher and Cordilleran Flycatcher in 1989, so it is not specific as to species. The NJ citation: PACIFIC-SLOPE/CORDILLERAN FLYCATCHER Empidonax difficilis/occidentalis (1, 0) 1 Brigantine NWR, ATL 16 Nov 81 D Sibley, R Maurer AR96 Massachusetts has a recent November record that was not nailed down between Yellow-bellied and Western. I found the description below at http://massbird.org/MARC/MARCreport11.htm. "Yellow-bellied Flycatcher (Empidonax flaviventris), #05-53, November 4, 2005, Brewster (Barnstable). An Empidonax flycatcher with a very green back and yellow belly was captured by a bander on November 4. The date was very suspect for Yellow-bellied Flycatcher, but the p10 to p5 measurements were inconsistent with the most likely candidate, one of the “Western” Flycatcher complex (Pacific-coast Flycatcher, E. difficilis and Cordilleran Flycatcher, E. occidentalis). Based on measurement, it was submitted to the MARC as Yellow-bellied, but experts agreed there were too many anomalies to make a definitive decision. (First ballot: Vote: 4-5)" Pennsylvania apparently has at least two records for Pacific Slope Flycatcher. Their web site is pretty thin, but in a pdf I find an index by species: Pacific-slope; Second State Record of Pacific Slope Flycatcher, Lancaster County; Eric Witmer; 54; 156 Birding the Mundane and Finding the Rare... First Record of a Pacific-slope Flycatcher East of the Mississippi; Joe Meloney & Harold Morrin; 44; 135 Pacific Slope Flycatcher, Lancaster County; Franklin Haas; 44; 142 Virginia has it on the state list as the complex but I was unable to find out anything more: Pacific-slope/Cordilleran Flycatcher E. difficilis/occidentalis North Carolina is very interesting. Their record is from January 2000. They DID get recordings, but still did not make any definite choice between Pacific Slope and Cordilleran, though the evidence favored Pacific Slope. There is a good bit of information on a couple of web sites, including the recordings and some not very good photos. http://www.carolinabirdclub.org/chat/issues/2003/v67n1nc_brc_2002.pdf http://www.carolinanature.com/birds/psfl.html