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a.m. noticed a bird with an enormous tail (about twelve inches 
long) sitting on a bare limb of a poplar tree about 100 yards from 
me. On closer inspection I found it to be opening and closing 
its tail. I am quite sure it was a scissor-tailed flycatcher. (ZL. 
Osborne Scott in Ottawa Naturalist, Vol. XIII, p. 195.) The speci- 
men taken by Mr. C. W. Nash in Manitoba and referred to above 
is now in the collection of Mr. J. H. Fleming in Toronto. 
MUSEUM SPECIMEN. 
One specimen taken at York Factory, Hudson Bay, and pre- 
sented. torther museum) by) Dr. Ks Bell: 
CLXI. TYRANNUS Cvovier. 1799. 
444. King-bird. 
Tyrannus tyrannus (LINN.) JORDAN. 1884. 
Audubon (Vol; 1, p..207) found it, breeding in Labrador: 
(Lackard.) A common summer resident in Newfoundland. 
(Reeks.) Common summer resident in Nova Scotia, but rare at 
Halifax. (Downs.) A common summer resident at Sydney, 
Cape Breton Island, N.B. (C. &. Harte.) Fairly abundant from 
the middle of May to the middle of September at Wolfville, N.S. 
(7. Tufts.) Not rare at Baddeck and Margaree, Cape Breton 
“Island, July, 1898; breeding and rather common at Brackley 
Point, Prince Edward Island, 1888. (/acoun.) Rather common 
on Prince Edward Island, 1892. (Dwzght.) An abundant summer 
resident in New Brunswick. (Chamberlain.) Observed only at 
Point du Chéne, in New Brunswick. (BSvewster.) Common sum- 
mer resident vat seoteh) wake, York Co:, N:B.° (M7. A. Moore.) 
Seen only in the neighbourhood of houses ; very rare in the valley 
of the Restigouche, N.B. (Brittain & Cox.) 
Only cne specimen seen on the Magdalen Islands. (JSzshop.) 
Taken at Beauport ; a common summer resident in Quebec. 
(Dionne.) Quite common at Bevin’s Lake and Hamilton’s farm, 
River Rouge, Argenteuil Co., Que. (D’Urban.) Common summer 
resident in the Montreal district. (J1 znd/e.) 
Common summer resident in the Ottawa district; breeds 
abandantly. (Ottawa Naturalist, Vol. V.) Abundant in the set- 
tled districts as a summer resident in the Muskoka and Parry 
Sound districts. (/. A. Fleming.) Common everywhere along 
the shores of the lakes in Algonquin Park, Ont. A pair nested 
