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of Los Angeles, California, and others, report it 

 as nesting also in shrubs, like water-alders, as 

 well as in holes in river banks. 



Particular Description. — Head, back and rump, 

 grayish-olive ; pale wing-bands ; breast, dull yellowish ; 

 abdomen, more sulphur-yellow ; a circle of dull yellow 

 about the eye. 



Length, 5.5 to 6 inches. 



THE ARKANSAS KINGBIRD. 



General Description : 



Head, neck and breast, light ashy-gray ; tail, 

 black ; abdomen, yellow. 



Length, 8 to 9.5 inches. 

 Found here and there throughout these States. 



This is the more common giant Flycatcher of 

 these States. He is found in great numbers 

 in the eastern section, and may be seen, nesting 

 upon the cross-bars of telegraph poles in the 

 cities and towns, and darting about the streets 

 for insects. He is given, by the inhabitants of 

 these towns, the false name which the people of 

 the East give the Kingbird proper, " Bee Mar- 

 tin." Thus farmers and others often make the 

 same fatal mistake respecting this bird that they 



