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drones, and lience comparatively little harm is done. If worker bees 

 should be persistently destroyed by some individual bird that develops 

 an abnormal appetite, he should be killed. 



443. Milvulus f ov^csitvLS {G)neL). — Scissor-tailed Flycatcher. 



Once near Lincoln, fall of 1872 (L. Bruner) ; "Accidental * * * Mani- 

 toba, and even at York Factory Hudson's Bay Territory " (Goss). 



444. Tyrannus tyrannus (imw.). — Kingbird; Bee-bird. 



ah parts of state, breeds (L. Bruner) ; "Abundant as far west as the middle 

 of Nebraska" (Aughey); "Summer resident, abundant, arrive in April and 

 May, leave in September " (Taylor) ; "Chiefly east of the Rocky mountains " 

 (Goss) ; Beatrice, De Witt — nesting (A. S. Pearse) ; Omaha — breeds (L. Skov?); 

 Peru, common — breeds (G. A. Coleman); Cherry county — breeds (J. M. Bates); 

 Gage county — breeds (F. A. Colby) ; Omaha, common summer resident, arrives 

 April 20 to May 12, breeds May 16 to 30, departs about September 15 '"' (I. S. 

 Trostler). 



447. Tyrannus verticalis Say. — Arkansas Flycatcher. 



West Point, Sidney, Ft. Robinson. Lincoln, etc., breeds (L. Bruner) ; "This 

 bird abounds along the wooded streams in southwestern Nebraska " (Aughey); 

 "Summer resident, common, arrives in May" (Taylor); "Western United 

 States, east to Missouri and western Minnesota" (Goss); Omaha (L. Skow); 

 Cherry county — breeds (J. M. Bates); "a scarce summer visitor, one seen 

 September, 1895" (I. S. Trostler). # 



452. Myiarchuscrinitus(itnrj.). — Great-crested Flycatcher. 



West Point (L. Bruner); southeastern portion of state (Aughey); "Summer 

 resident, common" (Taylor) ; "East [west?] to the edge of the Great Plains" 

 (Goss); Omaha — breeding (L. Skow); Peru, common — breeds (G. A. Coleman); 

 Lincoln (D. A. Haggard); "a not rare summer resident — breeds in June" (L 

 S. Trostler). 



456. Sayornis phcebe {Lath.). — Phcebe; Pewee. 



Omaha, Lincoln, West Point (L. Bruner); breeds, along the Missouri 

 (Aughey) ; "Summer resident, common" (Taylor) ; " West to eastern Colorado 

 and western Texas " (Goss) ; Beatrice, De Witt — breeding (A. S. Pearse) ; 

 Omaha — breeds (L. Skow); Peru, common, breeds (G. A. Coleman); Cherry 

 county — breeds (J. M. Bates); Gage county — breeds (F. A. Colby); "a com- 

 mon summer resident, earliest seen 15th — breed in late April, depart in Septem- 

 ber" (I. S. Trostler). 



457. Sayornis saya (Bonap.). — Say's Phcebe. 



Lincoln (L. Bruner) "Have only observed it in central and western Ne- 

 braska" (Aughey); "Abundant in western Nebraska, where it breeds" (Taylor) ; 

 "East to Dakota, south through middle Kansas" (Goss); Omaha — breeds (L. 

 Skow); "Summer resident, common," North Platte (M. K. Barnum). 



