384 TYRANT F L Y - C A T C H E R. 



XXVII. FLY-CATCHER. Gen. Birds, XLIX. 



263. Tyrant. Tyrant, Catejby,\. ^i^,~Br>ffon, ii. 39!. 



Lanius Tyrannus, Lr». %?. 136 — Latham, i. 1 86. 



Le Tyran de la Caroline, De Buffon, iv. ^TJ.—Pl. Enl. 6-j6.--l.ty. Mus.— 

 ' Bl. Mus. 



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^L. With a black bill and head ; the crown divided lengthways 

 by a ftripe of fcarlet ; in fome, yellow : back afh-color : wings 

 duflcy, edged with white: tail black, tipt with white: under fide 

 of the body white : legs black. Size of a Redwing Thrulh. 

 Place. This fpecies appears in New Tork in Ap-il: lays five white eggs, 



fpotted with ruft-color : builds in low bufhes : makes its neft with 

 -wool, and fome mofs, and lines -it with fmall fibres of roots : leaves 

 the country in Auguji : obferves the fame time of migration in the 

 fouthern provinces. Mr. Catepy gives fo very good an account of its 

 manners, and Angular fpirit, that I beg leave to exprefs it in his own 

 words : — " The courage of this little bird is Angular. He purfues 

 " and puts to flight all kinds of birds that come near his ftation, 

 " from the fmalleft to the largefl, none efcaping his fury j nor did I 

 cf ever fee any that dared to oppofe him while flying, for he does not 

 " offer to attack them when fitting. I have feen one of them fix 

 *' on the back of an Eagle, and perfecute him fo, that he has 

 " turned on his back into various poftures in the air, in order to get 

 " rid of him J and at lafl: was forced to alight on the top of the 

 " next tree, from whence he dared not to move, till the little 

 " Tyrant was tired, or thought fit to leave him. This is the 

 " conftant praftice of the cock, while the hen is brooding : he fits 

 " on the top of a bulb, or fmall tree, not far from her neft ; near 

 " which, if any fmall birds approach, he drives them away 5 but 

 " the great ones, as Crows, Hawks, and Eagles, he won't fufl^er to 

 " come within a quarter of a mile of him without attacking them. 



7 " They 



