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together. I have seen as many as sixteen in one flock in June. Three 
or four are commonly seen together in winter, when they frequent the 
rocky shores in search of shell-fish, &c. At the approach of the breed- 
ing season they separate into pairs, and select the most retired cedar 
groves for their nesting places, the same couple resorting to a particular 
spot for many years if undisturbed. The nest is a bulky structure of 
sticks and cedar bark, warmly lined with the latter material and with 
goats’ hair; it is usually in a wide fork, against the trunk, and never 
very high up. Eggs, usually four, exactly like those of our European 
Crows. I have found as many as half a dozen nests, in various stages 
of dilapidation, in the same clump of trees—the work, doubtless, of the 
same pair. Shey seem invariably to build a fresh one every year. Only 
one brood appears to be raised, leaving the nest about the end of May. . 
The earliest nest I heard of was one containing four fresh eggs on April 
3, 1875. Lieutenant Denison and I found five young birds in one nest, 
two of which were somewhat less advanced in feathering than the re- 
mainder; and, as we were mobbed all the time we were at the nest by 
four old Crows, we came to the conclusion that the nest must be com- 
mon to both pairs; rather an odd thing when one considers the solitary 
breeding habits of the species. Mr. Bartram has a specimen measuring 
214 inches in length, which we at first thought must be a Raven, C. 
corax, particularly as it did not mix with the other crows, and was shot 
on a small island it frequented; but subsequent examination inclined 
me to believe that it was only an unusually large bird, perhaps a little 
stretched in stuffing. Ordinary specimens measure 18 to 20 inches. 
Suborder CLAMATORES. 
Family TYRANNIDA. 
Sub-family TYRANNINAN. 
Genus TYRANNUS, Cuv. 
58. Tyrannus carolinensis, (Gm.) Temm. King-bird; Bee-Martin. 
Lanius tyrannus, Linn., Gm., Lath. 
Lanius tyrannus, var. carolinensis et ludovicianus, Gm., Lath. 
Tyrannus carolinensis, Temm., Cab., Bd., and later writers. 
Muscicaparex, Bart. 
Muscicapa tyrannus, Wils., Bp., Nutt., Aud. 
Tyrannus pipiri, Vieil., Cab., Sel., Gundl., Coues, Sel. & Salv. 
Tyrannus intrepidus, Vieil., Sw., Sw. & Rich., Bp., Woodh., Scl. 
Muscicapa animosa, Licht. 
Tyrannus leucogaster, Stephens. 
Tyrannus vieillotii, Sw. 
