58 The Wilson Bitlletin — No. 107 



perch, frequently uttering a few rather low-pitched weak 

 notes like " Quit-eat," pronounced and repeated rapidly 

 and several times successively. At times their strain was 

 translated into " Quit eat it." 



After the young are grown and awing they are in- 

 clined to remain with the parent birds, or at least it is 

 usual to find groups of four or five of these birds asso- 

 ciated in the late summer, and at that time they are more 

 inclined to wander farther from the open waters, although 

 with my limited opportunities I have not found them even 

 then removed from the immediate proximity to a river 

 bank or bay shore, and never beyond the limits of a tidal 

 marsh. As they come to us a little later in the spring than 

 the bolder, more strenuous Kingbird, so in the autumn 

 they depart a few days earlier, September 26, 1917, being 

 the latest date I have seen them here, on which day five 

 were in companj^ near our lighthouse; while the latest 

 noted dates for the Kingbird were September 29, 1914, 

 September 26, 1915, October 4, 1918. 



While in general appearance and flight they resemble 

 T. tyrannus they may be readily distinguished from that 

 species at a considerable distance, even when the paler col- 

 oring and lack of white tail-tip are observed, by a more 

 sluggish flight and dash for prey and to a greater degree 

 by the heavier appearance of the head due to the longer, 

 stouter bill, which gives to the bird a rather top-heavy ap- 

 pearance. 



St. Marks, Fla. 



