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relieve her by watching tlie nest, and thus give her an opportunity to 

 seek food for herself. I never saw a Kingbird either assist in brooding 

 or carry food to his mate, but his manners to her are most affection- 

 ate, and he is untiring in his labors in the feeding of the young. 



This bird is accused of ^jeing quarrelsome and aggressive to other 

 birds, and his scientific name means Tyrant Flycatcher, but in my 

 study of his ways I have found him less aggressive than are most birds 

 in the neighborhood of their nest. With the exception of the Crow, 

 against whom he seems to have a special grudge, I have never seen a 

 Kingbird take notice of any bird unless he alighted near his nest, and 

 the meekest creature that wears leathers will try to drive away stran- 

 gers who approach that sacred spot. 



The calls and cries of the Kingbird are generally loud and attract- 

 ive, if not particularly musical, but while his mate is sitting— and pos- 

 sibly at other times — he indulges in a soft and very pleasing song, 

 which I have heard only in the very early morning. 



Olive Tuobne Miller. 



445. T2n^A>nnus dominicensl* (Gmel.). Okay Kinoriku. Ad.— 

 Upper parts asliy {j;niy ; a conci'aled oranf^e-rcd crown patch ; wings and tail 

 fuscous; under winp-coverts pale sulpliur-yellow; under parts white, tinged 

 with grayish on the breast. L., 900; W., 4-»i0; T., 3-50; B. from N., -80. 



A'antje. — Breeds from the coast of South Carolina southward through 

 Florida and tiie Greater Antilles; winters in the Lesser Antilles, Mexico, and 

 Central America; accidental in Massachusetts. 



AW, of grass and weeds, lined with fine grass and rootlets, in hushes. 

 E<j<js, four, deep salmon, irregularly spotted and blotched with umber and 

 lilac, 1-00 X -75 (Mayuard). 



The Gray Kingbird is a common summer resident of parts of our 

 South Atlantic States, arriving early in May. It resembles the King- 

 bird in appearance, but lacks the white band at the end of the tail, 

 and has quite different notes. Its usual call is a vigorous pitirri, 

 pitirri, which in Cuba gives it its common name. 



The Arkansas Kinobikd (44^. Tifrnnnns verticalu), a western species, 

 has been taken in Iowa, District of Columbia, Maine, New Jersey, and New 

 York. 



468. Myiarchus crinitus (Linn.). Crested Flvcatomer; Great 

 Cresteu Flvoatcuek. Ad. — Upper parts grayish brown, washed with olive- 

 green ; outer vane of primaries margined with pale rufous; inner vane of all 

 but the middle tiil-reathers /)a/« rM/oM«/ throat nv id brea-st pearl-gray ; belly 

 Bulphur-yellow. L., Jt-01 ; W., 4-14; T., 8-75: B. from N., -62. 



li'uufe. — Breeos from Florida to New Brunswick ; winters from southern 

 Florida to Central America. 



Washington, very common 8. R., Apl. 25 to Sept. Sing Sing, common 

 8. U., May 7 to Sc'pt. 12. Cambridge, uuconunon S. K., May 15 to Aug. 



