584 BULLETIN UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SUEVEY. [FoLV. 



1873. Heksey, J. L. Bees and Kingbixds [Tyranuus carolinensisl. < Am Nat vii 

 1873, p. 434. ■' ' 



Kote from the American Bee Journal, to the effect that Tyranniis caroUnensis eats bees. 

 1873. Hersey, J. L. Bees and King Birds [Tyrannus carolinensis]. < Am. Sports- 

 man, a, 1873, p. 166; see also ibid., iii, 1873, p. 51. 

 Prom American Bee Journal ,- Tyrannus carolinensis eats the drone hive-bees. 

 1873. Merriam, C. H. The OUve-sided Flycatcher [Contopus borealis, in New York! 

 -CAm. Mat., vii, 1873, p. 750. 

 Notes on habits; continued, op. eit, viii, 1874, p. 309. 



1873. SCLATER, P. L. Note on the Genus Omithion of Hartlaub. <P Z S 1873 



pp. 576-578. ■ ■' ' 



Synopsis of 4 spp. of this genus, with which Camptostoma Sol. and Myiopatis Cab. are con- 

 sidered synonymous. See especially Lawrence, Ibis, 1876, p. 497. i 



1874. Brewee, T. M. The Olive-sided Fly Catcher [ Contopus boreaUs]. < Am. Sports- 



man, iv, 1874, p. 198. 

 Denies the allegation that it is a "rare" species in New England. 

 1874. Cabot, J. E. The Olive-sided Flycatcher [Contopus borealisl. < Am. Nat 

 viii, 1874, p. 240. ' 



Memorandum of the original discovery of the speceis in Massachusetts. 

 1874. Deane, K. Olive-sided Flycatcher [Contopus boreaUs]. < Am. Nat, viii 1874 

 pp. 308-309. ' ' > 



Pield-notes. 

 1874. Editorial. [Alleged occurrence of Tyrannus dominicensis on Long Island.] 

 < Forest and Stream, ii, July 23, 1874, p. 373. 



1874. Hall, F. W. The Mycharchus [i e., Myiarchus] crinitus. < Forest and Stream, 

 iii, Dec. 3, 1874, p. 261. 



1874. Lawrence, G. N. Descriptions of Two New Species of Birds of the FamiUes 

 Tauagridse and TyrannidjB. < Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., xi, Julv 1874 nn 

 70-72. ' i'i" 



The Tyranninehere described is Myiarchus flammulatus, p. 71, from Tehuantepec, Mexico. 

 1874. Merriam, C. H. The Olive-sided Flycatcher [Contopus borealis]. < Am. Nat 

 viii, 1874, p. 309. 

 Further {op. dt, vii, 1873, 750) field-notes. 



1874. Morris, E. T. The Crested Fly-catcher [Myiarchus crinitus]. <: Forest and 



Stream, ii, May 14, 1874, p. 213. 



1875. Baird, S. F. [Note of the occurrence of Tyrannus verticalis in Maryland, near 



Washington, D. C] < Ann. Bep. Smiihson. Inst, for 1874, 1875, p. 32. 



The original notice of the occun-ence. The capture was made by P. L. Jouy ; see his Cata- 

 logue of the Birds of the District of Columbia, in Field and Forest, ii, No. 9 1877 pp 154-156 

 and No. 10, 1877, pp. 178-181. ' ' 



1876. "Bridgeport." Ca<s vs. Birds. <:Bod and Gun, vu, Feb. 19, 1876, p. 329. 



King-birds whipping a cat. Compare p. 294. 

 1876. Henshaw, H. W. On two Empidonaces, traillii and acadicus. < BnU. Nutt 

 Ornith. Clui, i, No. 1, Apr., 1876, pp. 14-17. 

 With special reference to differences in their geographical distribution, nests, and eggs. 

 , The subject is well handled, and the author's remarks have been established by later experi- 



ences. 



S. F. Baird was the first to fix the species of our smaUer Flycatchers with any satisfactory 

 degree of precision. This he did in 1858 ; since which time, no material modification has been 

 established among the N. Am. species of Fmpidonax. The history, however, of the habits of 

 these birds, especially of their geographical distribution, nesting, and eggs, has been much 

 involved. Little reliance can be placed on the accounts given by Wilson, NuttaU and Au- 

 dubon ; and even since 1858, there have been several mistakes made in the writings of Allen, 

 Brewer and Coues, with reference to the distribution of acadicus in New England, and to the 

 nests and eggs of all four of the eastern species. Late papers in the NuttaU Bulletin, how- 

 ever, have at length cleared up the confusion ; and no one should presume to write on the 

 habits of birds of this genus without consulting the present paper by Henshaw, and the sev- 

 eral others in the Nuttall Bulletin by Purdie, Osborne, Batohelder and Coues, cited beyond in 

 this bibliography. 



