THE BIRD BOOK 



448. Cassin's Kingbird. 



Tyruiivua vniifi'i'avs. 



Range. -Western United 

 States from the Rocky Moun- 

 tain region to California, and 

 from Wyoming southward. 



Tliis species is like the last 

 except that the throat and 

 breast are darker. Their 



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 habits, nesting habits and 

 eggs are indistinguishable 

 from those of the other Ty- 

 rant Flycatchers, and they 

 are fully as courageous in the 

 defense of their homes 

 against either man or bird, 

 their notes resembling those 

 of the common Kingbird of 

 the east. 



449. DifRBY Fr.YrATCHER. Pttiiiiffiis >iiil pUu i(il IIS dprhuiiiiis. 



Range.- Mexico and Central America, breeding north to southern Texas. 

 This handsome bird is the largest of ihe Flycatcher family found in the 



United States, being 11 inches in length. It has a black crown enclosing a 

 yellow crown patc^h ; a broad black stripe from the 

 ■ - ' hill, through the eye and around the back of the 



head, is separated from the crown by a white fore- 

 head and line over the eye; the throat is white 

 shading into yellow on the underparts. They are 

 alnindant in the interior of Mexico, but can hardly 

 l)e classed as common over our border, where they 

 nest in limited numbers. Their nests are unlike 

 tliose of any of our other Flycatcliers being large 

 masses of moss, weeds and grass, arched over on 



top and with the entrance on the side. The three or four eggs are creamy white, 



sprinkled chielly about the large end with small reddish brown or umber spots; 



size 1.15 X .85. 



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