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ZOOLOGY— BIRDS. 



up the Mississippi Valley, and availing itself of the Missouri and its tribu- 

 taries, following them up toward their sources. 



No. 



Sex. 



Locality. 



Date. 



Collector. 



Wing. 



Tail 



Bill. 



Tarsus. 



4 S 

 1 



9 ad. 





July 25, 1S72 



Dr. H. C. Yarrow and 

 H. W. Henshaw. 





















TYRANNUS VERTIOALIS, Say. 



Arkansas Flycatcher. 



Tyrannus verticalis, Say, Long's Exped. Rocky Mts., ii, 1823, CO.— Bd., Birds N. A., 

 185S, 173.— Heerm., P. 11. It. Ecp., x, pt. iv, 1859, 37.— Xantus, Proc. 

 Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1859, 190 (Fort Tejon, Cal.).— Henry, Proc. Acad. 

 Nat. Sci. Phila., 1859, 10G (New Mexico).— Coor. & Suckl., P. R. R. Rep., 

 xii, pt. ii, 1800, 108.— Hayd., Trans. Am. Phil. Soc, xii, 1862, 157.— Cooper, 

 Birds Cal., i, 1870, 312.— Stev., U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr., 1870, 403.— Allen, 

 Bull. Mus. Cotnp. Zool., 1872, 179 (Kansas, etc.).— Coues, Key N. A. Birds, 

 1872, 170, tigs. 110% 112.— AlKEN, Proc. Bost. Soc, Nat. Hist., 1872, 205.— 

 Snow, Birds Kan., 1872, 0.— Merriam, IT. S. Geol. Surv, Terr., 1872, 090 

 (Utah ; Idaho).— Coues, Am. Nat., viii, 1S74, 599 (Upper Missouri).— Yar- 

 row, Rep. Orn. Specs., 1871, Wheeler's Exped., 1S74, 35.— Yarrow & 

 IIensiiaw, Rep. Orn. Specs., 1S72, Wheeler's Exped., 1874, 21.— Henshaw, 

 Rep. Orn. Specs.. 1873, Wheeler's Exped., 1874, 05, 101.— Id., An. Lye. Nat. 

 Hist. N. Y., xi, 1874, 7.— Id., An. List Birds Utah, 1872, Wheeler's Exped., 

 1874, 46.— Bd., Brew., & REDO., Birds N. A., ii, 1874, 324, pi. 43, f. 2.— 

 Allen, Proc. Bost, Soc. Nat. Hist., June, 1874, 17, 31.— Coues, Birds 

 Northwest, 1874, 236. 



The numerous citations above show the general distribution of this bird 

 throughout the Middle Region, where it seems to be an abundant species. 

 Entering the Southern Region of New Mexico and Arizona, it begins to be 

 less frequently met with, though at Fort Wingate, in the former Territory, 

 it was by no means uncommon. At Camp Apache, Ariz., it was present in 

 small numbers in September; and, during the past season, I secured, at 

 Camp Grant, a female with a young bird, which indicates that at this, the 

 extreme southern, point of its range, it is a summer resident. It is a bird 

 that compels attention ; possessing all the force of action and pugnacity of 

 the Kingbird, while its notes are louder and harsher. In the neighborhood 

 of Denver, Colo., it appears about May 5; and the males at once begin an 



