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orange crown patch; belly yellow; young, duller colored, with no crown 

 patch. 



Length 8.5-9.5 inches; wing d" 4-75-5-25; tail even or slightly emar- 

 ginate 3.7-4; bill from nostril .5. 



Distribution. The Arkansas kingbird, a western species, has been 

 taken accidentally in the eastern part of the United States, in Iowa, New 

 Jersey, Maine and the District of Columbia. A single specimen from 

 New York, taken at Riverdale October 19, 1875, an immature male, is 

 recorded by E. P. Bicknell in the Bulletin of the Nuttall Ornithological 

 Club, volume 4, page 60. 



Myiarchus crinitus (Linnaeus) 

 Crested Flycatcher 



Plate 67 



Turdus crinitus Linnaeus. Syst. Nat. 1758. Ed. 10. 1:170 

 Tyrannus crinitus DeKay. Zool. N. Y. 1844. pt 2, p. 119, fig. 70 

 Myiarchus crinitus A. O. U. Check List. Ed. 3. 1910. p. 210. No. 452 

 myiarchus, Gr., [Auta, fly, and apx^S, ruler; crinitus, Lat., haired or crested 



Description. Upper parts olive; throat and breast ash gray; belly and 

 under tail coverts sulphur yellow; tail from below shows all the inner webs 

 rufous, many of the wing feathers also rufous on the inner webs; head 

 somewhat crested. 



Length 8.75-9.15 inches; extent 13-14; wing 3.9-4.4; tail 3.6-4.2; 

 bill from nostril .6; tarsus .8. 



Distribution. The Crested flycatcher is a summer inhabitant of 

 eastern North America from the gulf coast to New Brunswick and Ontario; 

 winters from southern Florida to Central America. In New York State 

 it is a common summer resident in the warmer districts and fairly common 

 on the uplands above 1000 feet, but is practically absent from the interior 

 of the Catskill and Adirondack forests, although it invades the valleys 

 almost to the heart of those regions. It arrives from the 25th of April 

 to the 1 2th of May and disappears in the fall between the 1st and the 

 25th of September. During some seasons this flycatcher rivals the King- 

 bird and the Wood pewee in abundance, but, in general, is less common 



