146 TYRANT FLYCATCHER, OR KING BIRD. 
loud and spirited, very much resembled those of the Indigo Bird. It 
continued a considerable time on the same pine-tree, creeping around 
the branches, and among the twigs, inthe manner of the Titmouse, 
uttering its song every three or four minutes. On flying to another 
tree, it frequently alighted on the body, and ran nimbly up or down, 
spirally and perpendicularly, in search of insects. I had afterwards 
many opportunities of seeing others of the same species, and found 
them all to correspond in these particulars. This was about the 24th 
of February, and the first of their appearance there that spring, for 
they leave the United States about three months during winter, and, 
consequently, goto no great distance. I had been previously informed 
that they also pass the summer in Virginia, and in the southern parts 
of Maryland ; but they very rarely proceed as far north as Pennsyl- 
vania, 
This species is five inches and a half in length, and eight anda 
half broad; the whole back, hind head, and rump, are a fine light 
slate color; the tail is somewhat forked, black, and edged with light 
slate; the wings are also black, the three shortest secondaries, broadly 
edged with light blue; all the wing-quills are slightly edged with the 
same; the first row of wing-coverts is tipped and edged with white, 
the second, wholly white, or nearly so; the frontlet, ear-feathers, lores, 
and above the temple, are black; the line between the eye and 
nostril, whole throat, and middle of the breast, brilliant golden yellow; 
the lower eyelid, line over the eye, and spot behind the ear-feathers, 
as well as the whole lower parts, are pure white; the yellow on the 
throat is bordered with touches of black, which also extend along the 
sides, under the wings; the bill is black, and faithfully represented in 
the figure; the legs and feet, yellowish brown; the claws, extremely 
fine pointed; the tongue, rather cartilaginous, and lacerated at the 
end. The female has the wings of a dingy brown, and the whole 
colors, particularly the yellow on the throat, much duller; the young 
birds of the first season are without the yellow. a 
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TYRANT FLYCATCHER, OR KING BIRD.— MUSCICAPA 
TYRANNUS+#* — Fie. 53. 
Lanius tyrannus, Lin. Syst. 136.—Lath. Syn. i. 186.— Catesb. i. 55.— Le Tyran* 
de la Caroline, Buff. iv. 577. Pl. enl. 676.— Arct. Zool. p. 384. No. 263. — 
Peale’s Museum, No. 578. 
TYRANNUS INTREPIDUS, Vie1..o0t. 
Muscicapa tyrannus, Banap. Soman p. 66.— Tyrannus intrepidus, Vieill. Gal. des 
Ois. pl. 133.— North. Zool. ii. 137.—The Tyrant Flycatcher, Aud. pl. 79, 
male and female. Orn. Biog. i. 403. 
Tuis is the Field Martin of Maryland and some of the Southern 
States, and the King Bird of Pennsylvania and several of the 
* Among the fanily of the Lanaide, North America possesses only two of the 
sub-families ; the ypical one, Laniane, represented by Lanius, and an aberrant 
