BELLICOSE TYRANT 187 
considered the southern limit of its range, it was 
far from common, two or three pairs being the 
greatest number I ever met with during a summer 
season. Like other birds of its genus, it has an easy, 
rapid flight, and perches on trees or other elevated 
places, from which it occasionally makes a dash at 
passing insects. The nest, as in T. melancholicus, is 
a very slight structure of slender sticks, and the eggs 
are four, parchment colour, and spotted at the large 
end with dark brown or chocolate. Mr. Barrows 
found a Cow-bird’s egg in a nest of this species, 
which makes me think that it is less vigilant and war- 
like than T. melancholicus. 
This Tyrant is distinguished (in the books) by the 
longest scientific name bestowed by ornithologists 
on any South American species. 
BELLICOSE TYRANT 
Tyrannus melancholicus 
Above grey with a slight greenish tinge; head with a concealed 
vertical crest of scarlet and yellow; lores and ear-coverts blackish ; 
wings and tail brownish black with more or less of paler margins ; 
beneath yellow, throat greyish white, breast more or less greyish, 
under wing-coverts pale yellow ; bill and feet black; outer primaries 
attenuated ; tail deeply forked; length 8.5 inches. 
THE violent and bold temper exhibited by most 
Tyrant-birds during the breeding-season, a quality 
from which is derived the name of the family, is 
perhaps carried to a greater degree in this species 
