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447. ARKANSAS KINGBIED, Tyrannus verticalis Say. 



This noisy, handsome kingbird was abundant about the 

 ranches of the Reservation. It is very noticeable in its raove- 

 ments and demonstrative in manners, having a short musical 

 twitter which it utters generally upon alighting, accompanying 

 the twitter with a fluttering or quivering movement of the 

 wings. Like its congener the kingbird, it is very pugnacious 

 in its disposition, chasing away the magpie or other invader of 

 its domains. Its calls is vigorous in enunciation, resembling the 

 syllable "ki". We noted it at Post Creek, Crow Creek, and at 

 tile foot of Flathead Lake, at all of which places it was mani- 

 festly prominent because of young birds lately upon the 

 wing. The familiarity of this kingbird is measurably beyond 

 that of Tyrannus tyrannus, as it will boldly establish itself in 

 the midst of the busiest scenes. A pair had a nest on a cross- 

 piece upon a telephone pole on Main Street in Missoula, on 

 one of the busiest corners in the city. There the female would 

 sit jauntily while people were hurrvang along below her; and 

 there the male would visit her with refreshing tid-bits regard- 

 less of the evidences of activitv around their chosen domain. 



459. OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER, Contopus horealis 

 (Swain.) 



First observed on July 11, 1901, on the ridge leading to Mac- 

 Dougal Peak, at an altitude of 6,500 feet. A specimen was 

 sitting in the bare top of a tall tree, uttering its harsh, quer- 

 ulous call. Though not then taken, it was readily identified 

 by the white flank-tufts which show prominently between the 

 wings and back when the bird is at rest. On August 10, 1901, 

 a specimen was taken in the woods at the base of MacDougal 

 Peak. 



463. WESTERN WOOD PEWEE, Contopus richardsonii 



(Swains.) 



This interesting species was common on the hillsides near 

 the shores of ^ the mountain lakes. Its sharp call, 

 though suggestive of the plaint of the wood pewee 

 of eastern ~ regions, is quite different from the far- 

 away-sounding call of the latter, being uttered in a more 

 impatient, garrulous manner. The western species appears to 



