MCAULEY ON BIRDS OF THE RED RIVER OF TEXAS. 



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the great eud, rarely pissiug the middle, and the opposite one always 

 unspotted, the egg can be readily distinguished. 



Myiarchus crinitus, (L.) Cab. — Great-crested Flycatcher. 



Frequenting the thickets along some of the creeks and rivers, and 

 part of the canon of Red Eiver. 



The specimen secured gave evidence of quarreling propensities ; of 

 his having been engaged in many lights and having often been worsted. 



Myiarchus cinerascens, Lawr. — Ash-throated Flycatcher. 

 Occasional 5 a few noted on McClellan Creek. 



Say'ornis sayus, (Bp.) Bd. — Say^s Flycatcher. 

 Several along McClellan Creek and a few other points. 



CAPKIMULGID^. 



Antrostomus NUTTALLT, (x^ud.) Cass. — Nutfairs Whi^poorwill. 



Night after night about onr camps en route to and along Red River 

 and its headwaters, seemingly half a mile off, or leaving you undecided 

 whether it were but half as far, and often echoed from a distance by the 

 caiion-walls of the streams, were heard the dismal, doleful cries of this 

 ignis fatuus of birds to a collector. As twilightapproached, they seemed 

 to be plentiful in the neighboring ravine, but a search was generally 

 useless ; they could never be distinguished unless flushed, and then were 

 gone like a flash, or else came up behind you on their quiet skimming- 

 wing amid tall chaparral, lost as soon as seen. The specimen obtained 

 was the only one actually seen by me, and though it required a long 

 tiresome tramp, searching and following for hours, it was worth it all. 

 From my experience, 1 would rather engage to secure a dozen Chaparral 

 Cocks {G. californianus), with all their fleetuess of foot and general shy- 

 ness, than another specimen of this species. Not as often noticed when 

 camped upon the Staked Phiiu pro[)er as when by its edge or in the 

 canons or ravines below, it evidently avoided the desert level, leaving 

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