A Handsome Scissors tail 101 



sharp-angled VVWWV's, helping himself at the short 

 turns by rapidly opening and shutting his long white 

 scissors. As he goes up and down he utters all the while 

 a penetrating scream, Ka-quee-ka-quee-ka-quee-ka-quee- 

 ka-quee, the emphasis being given each time at the top 

 of the ascending line. 



" Frequently when he is passing along with the even 

 flight of a sober-minded crow, and you are quietly ad- 

 miring the salmon lining of his wings, he shoots rattling 

 into the air, and, as you stare after him, drops back as 

 suddenly as he rose. He does this apparently because 

 the spirit moves him, as a boy slings a stone at the sky, 

 but fervor is added by the appearance of a rival or an 

 enemy, for he is much like a Tyrannus in his master- 

 ful way of controlling the landscape. He will attack 

 caracaras and white-necked ravens, lighting on their 

 backs and giving tbem vicious blows while screaming 

 in their ears." 



