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incessant warfare, which is carried on with apparently no other object than 

 amusement. Their nests are bulky affairs ; resembling those of the King- 

 bird. One found at Provo was placed on the end of a cottonwood limb over- 

 hanging the "river, and composed of cottonwood down and grasses, lined 

 with a few hairs. The eggs are indisguishable from those of the common 



Kingbird 



By the latter 



iart of July, the young are 



generally 



able to fly. 



No. 



Sex. 



Locality. 



Date. 



Collector. 



Wing. 



Tail. 



Bill. 



Tarsus. 



57 

 70 



i°3 

 104 



5S 



63 

 76 



77 



78 



79 



4 



4 A 

 702 

 70S 

 217 

 21S 



5 ad. 

 Ad. 

 $ ad. 

 9 ad. 

 $ ad. 





May 25, 1871 

 do 













.. do... 



do 













July 26, 1S71 

 . ..do 



do 











do.. 



do 











do 



July 27, 1871 

 . .. do 



... do 











. do .. 



do 











$ ad. 

 Jun. 

 $ ad. 

 S ad. 

 $ ad. 

 i ad. 

 9 ad. 

 <? ad. 



...do 



Aug. 16, 1871 

 Sept. 14, 1871 

 May 12, 1S73 

 do 



do 













do 













II. W. Henshaw 



do 



5.27 

 5-23 

 5-3° 

 5. 20 



4-«3 

 5.07 

 5.09 

 4.9S 

 4-55 

 4-95 



4.00 

 4.20 

 4. 11 

 4.07 

 4.90 

 4.88 

 4.21 



3-9° 

 3.6S 



3-85 



0-75 

 0. 7S 



0.80 

 0.70 

 0. 76 



0.75 



o-73 

 0. 76 

 0.78 



0.77 

 0.75 

 0.77 

 0.75 

 0. 70 

 0.75 

 0.74 

 0.68 

 0. 76 

 0. 70 



do 



do 



do 



do 



do 



May 13, 1873 

 do 



do 



do 



do 



do 



. do . 



do 



do 



June — , 1S73 

 do 



Dr. J. T. Rothrock.... 

 do 



3 



9 jun. 

 <?jim. 

 £ ad. 

 9jun. 



do , 



Camp Apache, Ariz 



do 



Sept. 6, 1873 

 Sept. 7, 1873 

 July 29, 1S74 

 do .. 



II. W. Henshaw 

 do 



Camp Grant, Ariz 



do 



do 



do 

























TYRANNUS VOCIFERANS, Swains. 

 Cassia's Flycatcher. 



Tyrannus rociferans, SWAINS., Mon. Tyrant Shrikes in Quar. Jour. Sci., xx, Jan., 1826, 

 273.— Bd., Birds N. A., 1S5S, 174.— Id., U. S. & Mex. Bound. Surv., ii, pt. 

 ii, 1859, Birds, S.— Henry, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1859, 106 (New 

 Mexico).— Coues, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1S6G, 59 (Fort Whipple, 

 Ariz.). — Cooper, Birds Cal., i, 1870, 314. — Coues, Key N. A. Birds, 1872, 

 170, f. 110 d .— Aiken, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., 1872, 205 (El Paso County, 

 Col.).— Merriam, U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr., 1S72, 090 (Cheyenne, Wyo).— 

 nENSHAW, Pep. Orn. Specs., 1873, Wheeler's Exped., 1S74, 125. — Bd., 

 Brew., & Kidg., Birds N. A., ii, 1874, 327, pi. 43, f. 5. — Coues, Birds 

 Northwest, 1874, 238. 



Tyrannus cassinii, Lawk., An. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., v, 1S52, 39, pi. 3, f. 2 (Texas). 



The range of this species seems to be in general complementary to that 

 of the preceding bird, occupying its place to the southward, in New Mexico 



