238 TYHANNTJS , VOCIFEEANS, CASSIN's FLYCATCHER. 



the open woodlands, tbe nearest of which were about a hundred miles 

 distant. We also met with a few individuals at Ogden, Utah, and it 

 doubtless occupies the interveniug country at all favorable points." 



In Utah, according to Islv. Merriam, '"Arkansas Flycatchers are 

 numerous in the Great Salt Lake Basin, as they are among the cotton- 

 woods and bushes that border most of the streams between Salt Lake 

 and Fort Hall. From the 5th to the 28th of June I collected four of 

 their nests; they were placed on willows or cottonwoods, from eight to 

 fifteen feet above the ground ; were composed of fibrous roots, pieces of 

 dead sage-brush (Artemisia), dry grass, &c., lined with wool and other 

 soft substances. The first nest that I found was really very beautiful, as 

 ■well as curious; it was composed of fibrous roots, stalks of dry grass, 

 wool, pieces of sage-brush, with here and there a few leaves, and is 

 lined with wool, fibrous bark, and thread, with a feather occasionally 

 showing itself; there is much wool on the outside and all through the 

 nest, giving it a soft, downy appearance. This beautiful structure con- 

 tained four cream-colored eggs, spotted with reddish and dark brown, 

 the spots being most numerous near the large end." 



TTKANNUS VOCIFEEAXS, Sw. 

 Cassin's Flycatcher. 



Tyrannns vociferans, Sw., Quart. Jmir. Sci. xx, 1826. 273; Phil. Mag. i, 1827, 368.— Bd., 

 B. N. A. 1858, 174 ; Mex. B. Surv. ii, 1859, pt. ii, 8, pi. 10.— ScL., P. Z. S. 1859, 

 :3^;i (Oaxaca).— ScL. & Salv., Ibis, 1859, 121 (Vera Paz).— ScL., Ibis, 1859, 439 : 

 Cat. 186-3, 235 (Mexico).— CouES, Pr. Phila. Acad. 1866, .59 (Arizona).— Su.aiich., 

 Mem. Best. See. i, 1869, 557 (Vera Cruz).— Coop., B. C.al. i, 1870, 314.— Aikex, 

 Pr. Bost. Soc. 1872, 305 (Southeast Wvomintr.— Mekr., XJ. S. Geol. Surv. Ter. 1872, 

 690.— CouKS, Key, 1872, 170, fig. llC.— B. B. & E., X. A. B. ii, 1874, 327, pi. 43, f. 5. 



Zaphyctes vocife>-aii8, Cab., Mus. Hein. ii, 1859, 77. 



Ti/rannus cassiin, LAWE.,-ADn. Lye. N. Y. v, 18.'j2, 39, pi. 3, fig. 2 (Texas). 



Muscicapa saicllee, Licht., "Mus. Berol." (Cabanis). 



Hal). — Southwestern United States ; Western Texas to Southern California. North 

 to the -yicinity of the Black Hills. South through Mexico to Guatemala. "A few of 

 this species winter at Santa Cruz, latitude 37° ; » * » • resident as far north as 

 Los Angeles" (Cooper). 



Later Expeditions. — (51747, Cheyenne, Wyoming. 



Mr. Aiken's memorandum of the occurrence of the species near the 

 Black Hills is the northernmost record I have found, and it extends the 

 knowu range of the bird into the Missouri region. This observer first 

 noticed it the second week in May, in the same places where he found 

 T. verticalis. Further south it is an abundant and characteristic species, 

 mostly replacing T. verticcdif; in New Mexico and Arizona. I found it 

 plentiful in both these Territories, from the main chain of the Rocky 

 Mountains, at Whipple's Pass, westward. It is only a summer resident 

 in upper Arizona, where it arrives about the middle of April, and 

 remains until toward October, frequenting all wooded localities. Its 

 habits, according to my observations, are precisely the same as those of 

 T. rertiealis ; the nidiflcatiou and the eggs are similar. 



MYIAEGHUS CEIXITUS, (Linn.) Cab. 

 Great Crested Flycatcher. 



a. crinitus. 



Musdcctpa crinita, LiNX., Syst. Nat. i, 1766, 325. — WiLS., Am. Orn. ii, 1810, 75, pi. 13, 

 fig. 2.— Bp., Svn. 1828, 67.— Nun., Man. i, 1832, 271.— AuD., Orn. Biog. ii, 176; 

 V, 423 ; pi. 129; Syn. 1839, 40 ; B. Am. i, 1840, 209, pi. 57.— PcTN., Pr. Ess. Inst. 

 i, 185(i, 206 (MassacUnsetts). ,, ,,. „^ 



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