FLYCATCHERS 



variety is common in the West, and both are 

 rare in most parts of the Northwest. 



FAMILY TYRANXID/E: FLYCATCHERS 



Kingbird, Tyrannus iyrannus. 8.50 



Distribution: Temperate North 

 America, except parts of the arid regions 

 (where it is distributed locally and irregu- 

 larh'), from the Atlantic Coast west to south- 

 ern British Columbia, and in eastern 

 ^Vashington and Oregon. 



The flycatchers comprise a family of over 

 four hundred species centering in tropical 

 America, about ten per cent of which come 

 north in the spring to spend the summer in 

 the L'nited States, and northward to Alaska. 

 Most of the family, at least those that visit 

 the United States, are birds of somber hue, 

 of })rowns and grays and blacks with only 

 slight touches of color in some of the species. 

 They have few distinctive markings and one 

 must n^ly principally on their call notes, 

 especially among the smaller species, to tell 

 them apart. 



The kingbird, eastern kingbird, or bee 



martin, is abundant in the eastern United 



States l)ut thins out west of the Rockies, being 



found in certain localities in eastern Wash- 



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