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together. I have seen as many as sixteen in one flock in Jnne. Three 

 or four are commonly seen together in winter, when they frequent the 

 rocky shores in search of shell-fish, &c. At the approach of the breed- 

 ing season they separate into pairs, and select the most retired cedar 

 groves for their nesting places, the same couple resorting to a particular 

 spot for many years if undisturbed. The nest is a bulky structure of 

 sticks and cedar bark, warmly lined with the latter material and with 

 goats' hair; it is usually in a wide fork, against the trunk, and never 

 very high up. Eggs, usually four, exactly like those of our European 

 Crows. I have found as many as half a dozen nests, in various stages 

 of dilapidation, in the same clump of trees — the work, doubtless, of the 

 same pair. They seem invariably to build a fresh one every year. Only 

 one brood appears to be raised, leaving the nest about the end of May. 

 The earliest nest I heard of was one containing four fresh eggs on April 

 3, 1875. Lieutenant Denisou and I found five young birds in one nest, 

 two of which were somewhat less advanced in feathering than the re- 

 mainder; and, as we were mobbed all the time we were at the nest by 

 four old Crows, we came to the conclusion that the nest must be com- 

 mon to both pairs; rather an odd thing when one considers the solitary 

 breeding habits of the species. Mr. Bartram has a specimen measuring 

 21J inches in length, which we at first thought must be a Eaven, C. 

 corax, particularly as it did not mix with the other crows, and was shot 

 on a small island it frequented ; but subsequent examination inclined 

 me to believe that it was only an unusually large bird, perhaps a little 

 stretched in stufi&ug. Ordinary specimens measure 18 to 20 inches. 



Suborder CLAMATORES. 



Family TYRANNIDiE. 

 Sub-family TYRANNIX^. 

 Genus Tyrannus, Cuv. 

 68. Tyrannus carolitiensis, (Gm.) Temm. King-bird; Bee-Martin. 



Lanius tyrannus, Linn., Gm., Latli. 



Lanius tyrannus, var. carolinensis et hidovicianus, Gm., Lath. 

 Tyrannus carolinensis, Temm., Cab., Bel., and later writers. 

 Muscicapa rex, Bart. 



Muscicapa tyrannus, Wils., Bp., Nutt., Aud. 

 Tyrannus pipiri, Vieil., Cab., Scl., Gundl., Cones, Sol. & Salv. 

 Tyrannus intrepidus, Vieil., Sw., Sw. «feRich., Bp., Woodh., Scl. 

 Muscicapa animosa, Licht. 

 Tyrannus Icucoyasler, Stephens, 

 c Tyrannus vieillotii, ^vf. 



