SCIENTIFIC NAMES: Mascicapa forBcata Gmel. (1788). Tyramms for£catas Say (1823). MILVULUS 

 FORFICATUS Swainson (1827). 



DESCRIPTION: Adult male: "Tail-feathers, chiefly white; top of head, ash-gray; axillars, red or orange. 

 Above, light bluish-gray, the back tinged with red ; lower parts, white, faintly tinged with bluish-gray 

 anteriorly, the sides, flanks, under tail-coverts strongly washed with salmon-pink; axillars and con- 

 cealed spot in middle of crown, scarlet; length about 12.00 to 15.00 inches; wing, 4.40 to 5.15; 

 tail, 7.00 to 10.00 inches. — Adult female: Similar to male, but rather smaller, the tail shorter, axillars 

 less intensely red, the flanks, etc., paler salmon-color, and crown-spot indistinct." (R. Ridgway, 

 "Manual of North American Birds.") 



The Fork-tailed Flycatcher, Milvulus tyrannus Bp., an inhabitant of tropical 

 America, has been found as an accidental visitor in our country. 



KINGBIRD. 



Tyrannus tyrannus Jordan. 



Plate XXX. Fig. 3. 



kUR way leads us through the orange region of peninsular Florida. It is a 

 ^/ beautiful April day. Near the borders of the lowlands the flowering magnolias 

 are very conspicuous, and in marshy soil dense masses of andromedas are covered with 

 their exquisite waxy -white, honey-scented blossoms. This region has been settled scarcely 

 ten years ago, and most of the land is still covered with long-leaved pines, stunted 

 oaks, and thickets of saw palmettos, gopher root*, huckle-berry bushes, erythrinas, 

 yuccas ^ etc. Where the pine and hardwood forest has been cleared, the golden orange 

 glows among the dense dark green foliage. Bananas and pine-apples, cassava and 

 guaves grow now, where once wild flowers of great beauty carpeted the white, sandy 

 soil. Nothing, however, is likely to attract our attention more than the many large 

 and small lakes found everywhere. Fed by, subterranean springs, these lakes have 

 neither an inlet nor an outlet. The water is clear and pure, and in the immediate 

 vicinity of many of these lakes the vegetation is more luxuriant, owing to the better 

 condition of the soil and the constant moisture. Sweet and red bays, live and water 

 oaks, black and sweet gums, the holly and Dahoon, as well as magnolias and palmettos 

 congregate in such places, constituting the so-called hammock woods. Many of the 

 trees are covered on the trunks and larger boughs with air-plants', orchids ^ and ferns ^ 

 Climbers are common and very troublesome if we attempt to explore the interior of 

 these woodlands. The cabbage palmettos', growing singly or in groups, often show 

 underneath their beautiful crown of leaves a wreath of parasitical ferns'. These 

 palmettos impart a decidedly tropical aspect to the landscape. As yet we find most 

 of the houses of the settlers enclosed with orange and pomelo trees. Of late years 

 ornamental and shade trees have been planted extensively in some gardens. Mag- 

 nificent palms of different species are swaying their enormous fan-like or plume- 



t Cbrysohalanua oblongifoUua. » Yucca Blamentosa. s Tillandsla bracteata, T. utrlculata, T.Juacea, T. BartramI, 

 T. ceespitoaa. * Epidendrum conopaeum and E. venosum. b Polypodium iacanum, Vittarla lineata. « Sabat palmetto. 

 ' Polypodium aureum. 



