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sham threatening meant Httle and the flycatcher acted 

 as if he knew it. 



The sole thing from which these brilHant birds might 

 have derived protection was tlie abundance of red 



Photographed by R. U, Bt-.bc 



BELTED KINGFISHER 



flowers and the occasional solitary scarlet leaf. From 

 the railroad train we frequently mistook flower or leaf 

 for bird. But after all, it is probable that his immun- 

 ity from danger is due to the well-known pugnacity 

 of the race of flycatchers. 



We found flycatchers abundant in species and 

 numbers throughout Mexico, but none more beautiful 



*# 71 .^ 



