TYRANT FL YCA TCHER, OR KING BIRD. 2 1 5 



and a half broad ; the whole back, hind head, and rump, are 

 a fine light slate colour ; 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 are tipt 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 colours, particularly the yellow on the throat, much 

 duller ; the young birds of the first season are without the 

 yellow. 



TYRANT FLYCATCHBE, OR KING BIRD. 



{Muscicapa tyrannus.*) 



PLATE XIII.— Fig. L 



Lanius tyrannus, Linn. Syst. 136. — Lath. Syn. i. 186.— Catesb. i. 55. — Le Tyran 

 de la Caroline, Buff. iv. 577. PL enl. Q76.—Arct. Zool. p. 384, No. 263.— 

 Peale's Museum, No. 578. 



TYR ANNUS INTBEPILUS.—Vjeillot. 



Muscicapa tyrannus, Bonap. Synop. p. 66. — Tyrannus intrepidus, Vieill. Gal, 

 desOis. pi. 133.— North. Zool. ii. 137.— The Tyrant Flycatcher, Aud. pL 79, 

 male and female, Om. Biog. i. 403. 



This is the field martin of Maryland and some of the southern 

 States, and the king bird of Pennsylvania and several of the 



* Among the family of the Zanaidce, North America possesses only 

 two of the sub-families ; the typical one, Laniance, represented by 



