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a.m. noticed a bird with an enormous tail (about twelve inches 

 long) sitting on a bare limb of a poplar tree about loo yards from 

 me. On closer inspection I found it to be opening and closing 

 its tail. I am quite sure it was a scissor-tailed flycatcher. (Z. 

 Osborne Scott in Ottawa Naturalist, Vol. XIII, p. 195.) The speci- 

 men taken by Mr. C. W. Nash in Manitoba and referred to above 

 is now in the collection of Mr. J. H. Fleming in Toronto. 



MUSEUM SPECIMEN. 



One specimen taken at York Factory, Hudson Bay, and pre- 

 sented to the museum by Dr. R. Bell. 



CLXI. TYRANNUS Cuvier. 1799. 

 .444. King-bird. 



Tyrannus tyrannus (Linn.) Jordan. 1884. 



Audubon (Vol. I., p. 207) found it breeding in Labrador. 

 (Packard!) A common summer resident in Newfoundland. 

 {Reeks.) Common summer resident in Nova Scotia, but rare at 

 Halifax. {Downs.) A common summer resident at Sydney, 

 Cape Breton Island, N.B. {C. R. Harte.) Fairly abundant from 

 the middle of May to the middle of September at Wolfville, N.S. 

 {H. Tufts.) Not rare at Baddeck and Margaree, Cape Breton 

 Island, July, 1898 ; breeding and rather common at Brackley 

 Point, Prince Edward Island, 1888. {Macoun.) Rather common 

 on Prince Edward Island, 1892. {Dwight.) An abundant summer 

 resident in New Brunswick. {Chamberlain.) Observed only at 

 Point du Chene, in New Brunswick. {Brewster.) Common sum- 

 mer resident at Scotch Lake, York Co., N.B. {W. H. Moore.) 

 Seen only in the neighbourhood of houses ; very rare in the valley 

 of the Restigouche, N.B. {Brittain & Cox.) 



Only one specimen seen on the Magdalen Islands. {Bishop.) 

 Taken at Beauport ; a common summer resident in Quebec. 

 {Dionne.) Quite common at Bevin's Lake and Hamilton's farm, 

 River Rouge, Argenteuil Co., Que. {D'Urban.) Common summer 

 resident in the Montreal district. (H intle.) 



Common summer resident in the Ottawa district ; breeds 

 abandantly. {Ottawa Naturalist, Vol. V.) Abundant in the set- 

 tled districts as a summer resident in the Muskoka and Parry 

 Sound districts. (/. H. Fleming.) Common everywhere along 

 the shores of the lakes in Algonquin Park, Ont. A pair nested 



