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II. Wing under 3-00. 



A. Upper parts between olive-brown and dark olive-green, but with an 



evident brownish tinge, or lower mandible, brownish. 



a. Wing over 2-60 ; lower mandible flesh-color or whitish ; under parts 



with only a very slight tinge of yellow . 466a. TKAILL'S FLYCATCHER. 



b. Wing under 2-60 ; lower mandible rarely clear flesh-color ; generally 



strongly tinged with brownish 467. LEAST FLYCATCHER". 



B. Upper parts olive-green without a brownish tinge; lower mandible 



straw-color. 



a. First primary about equal to fifth ; under parts white, slightly washed 

 with yellowish on the breast and belly ; throat white. 



465. ACADIAN FLYCATCHER. 



b. First primary shorter than fifth ; under parts sulphur-yellow ; the 

 throat and breast more or less washed with olive-green. 



463. YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHER. 



The FORK-TAILED FLYCATCHER (442. Milvulus tyrannus), a South Amer- 

 ican species rarely found north of southern Mexico and the southern Lesser 

 Antilles, has been recorded from Mississippi, Kentucky, and New Jersey. 



The SCISSOR-TAILED FLYCATCHER (443. Milvulus forficatus) is found in 

 the summer as far north as southern Kansas and western Louisiana. It has 

 occurred accidentally near Hudson Bay, in Manitoba, Ontario, Connecticut, 

 New Jersey, Virginia, and Florida. It may be known by its long, deeply 

 forked tail and scarlet sides. 



444. Tyrannus tyrannus (Linn.}. KINGBIRD. Ad. Upper parts 

 grayish slate-color, darker on the head and upper tail-coverts ; head witli a 

 concealed orange-red crest; tail black, tipped with white ; under parts white, 

 washed with grayish on the breast. Im. Similar, but without the crown 

 patch, and with the plumage more or less tinged with ochraceous-buff. L., 

 8-51 ; W., 4-64 ; T., 8-55 ; B. from N., -55. 



Range. North America north to New Brunswick and Manitoba ; rare 

 west of the Rocky Mountains ; winters in Central and South America. 



Washington, common S. K., Apl. 20 to Sept. Sing Sing, common S. K., 

 Apl. 29 to Sept. 10. Cambridge, abundant S. K., May 5 to Sept. 1. 



Nest, compact and symmetrical, of weed-stalks, grasses, and moss lined 

 with plant-down, fine grasses, and rootlets, generally at the extremity of a 

 branch fifteen to twenty-five feet up. Eggs, three to five, white, spotted with 

 umber, 1-00 x -73. 



The Kingbird is most frequently seen on a fence or a dead twig on 

 a tree, where leaves do not come in the way of his sight. He stands 

 very upright, like a Hawk or an Owl, and, though as quiet as if he 

 had nothing to do, he is keenly awake to every movement about him, 

 and every few minutes he dashes into the air, seizes a passing insect, 

 and returns to the spot from which he started. While his mate is 

 sitting he usually establishes himself near the nesting tree, and spends 

 hour after hour in this apparently monotonous way, varying it only to 



