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outer tail-feathers ; abdomen, and sometimes lower 

 breast, yellow. 



Summer resident. 



THE KINGBIRD. 



GENERAL DESCRIPTION : 



Upper parts : blackish-gray. 

 Under parts: white. 

 Length, 8.5 inches. 



Found in open places, nesting in trees of 

 moderate size. 



The Kingbird of the East is not generally 

 distributed in this section. He is rare in the 

 Willamette Valley and southwestern Washing- 

 ton, but is not uncommon in eastern Oregon and 

 Washington, and is reported as not rare about 

 Puget Sound. 



In the North Atlantic States, he is to be found 

 at every turn. He sits upon the top of a tree 

 from twenty to thirty feet high, watching for the 

 hapless insect, and on guard against bird-ene- 

 mies of all kinds. Not even the predaceous 

 crow dare face this defender of his own and 

 other birds' eggs and young. His agility on the 

 wing is unequaled ; and no offender may hope 



