78 BIRDS OF MAINE. 



Order PASSERES. Perching birds. 



Suborder CLAMATORES. Songless Perching Birds. 

 Family TYRANNID^E. Tyrant Flycatchers. 

 Genus TYRANNUS Cuvier. 



188. (444). Tyrannus tyrannus (Linn.). Kingbird. 



Everywhere a common summer resident, but nevertheless this 

 species prefers to make its summer home in the immediate vicinity 

 of some dwelling house when possible. The nest is often placed in 

 an apple tree, although where I found this bird nesting away from 

 the vicinity of houses it often placed its domicile in some elm or 

 maple. They also nest in dead trees overhanging the water. 

 It is regarded with disfavor by bee keepers on account of its liking 

 for bees, but probably a large part of these insects which fall vic- 

 tims to its appetite are drones and consequently of no value to the 

 apiarist. 



County Records. Androscoggin, "common summer resident-' (John- 

 son) ; Aroostook, "seen at Fort Fairfield" (Batchelder, Bull. Nutt. Orn. 

 Club, Vol. 7, p. 149) ; Cumberland, "common summer resident" (Mead) ; 

 Franklin, "common summer resident*' (Swain) ; Hancock, "summer 

 resident" (Murch) ; Keimebec, "abundant summer resident" (Gardiner 

 Branch) ; Knox, "summer resident" (Rackliff) ; Oxford, "common sum- 

 mer resident" (Johnson) ; Penobscot, "breeds commonly" (Knight) ; 

 Piscataquis, "common" (Homer) ; Sagadahoc, "common summer resi- 

 dent" (Spinney) ; Somerset, "common summer resident" (Morrell) ; 

 Waldo, "common summer resident" (Knight) ; Washington, "very 

 abundant" (Boardman) ; York, "quite common summer resident" 

 (Adams). 



189. (447). Tyrannus verticalis Say. Arkansas Kingbird. 

 A single specimen has been taken at Elliot, Y~ork County, so this 



species is entitled to a place in our fauna as a purely accidental 

 visitor. (Cf . Purdie, Bulletin of the Nuttall Ornithological Club, 

 Vol. 1, p. 73). 



Genus MYIARCHUS Cabanis. 



190. (452). Myiarchus crinitns (Linn.). Crested Flycatcher. 

 A summer resident in the southern part of the state, and uncom- 

 mon within the limits of the Canadian fauna. 



