swallow-tailed flycatcher. 
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to h 1C0 ‘ Either Latham, Gmelin, nor Vieillot, seem 
had an opportunity of examining this bird, as 
have ha ^ e evident ly drawn on Button for what they 
s "all Sait ' .''datire to it. Hence it appears that the 
tile '.’" bailed flycatcher has never been obtained from 
®*Pedv e Bllffou to the period of Major Long’s 
Pres t,0U t ? tlie unexplored region it inhabits. The 
t>y w't specimen, which is a tine adult male, was shot 
Can, i- Titian Peulc, on the 24th of August, ou the 
• man fork of the Arkansaw river. 
tai]|, ( i '" u Sl 1 this bird is very different from the fork- 
a n d . , v catcher, yet, on account of the form of the tail, 
similarity of the common name, they are apt to 
for 
them t *’ som,! cau t>on is required to avoid referring 
l Hr | f to the same species. Notwithstanding this simi- 
i n |* some authors have placed the fork-tailed flycatcher 
genus Tyrannus, and the present bird in 
Will "ccipa, whereas, from an inspection of the bills, it 
Pfonel " C ® be seen, that the latter would be still more 
of it , ^ placed in their genus Tyrannus, as the form 
the < r " 1 exactly the same with that of the kingbird, 
Til ld tl |e subgenus. 
is t i e , sw ^llow-tailed flycatcher, when in full plumage, 
•he i r 'T" iiwhes long. The bill and feet are blackish • 
n Ppor , L are hrown (red, according to authors.) 
each other, and, when both are 
The bill and feet are blackish; 
[], according to authors.) The 
hack .l l:i . r t ld the head and neck is of a light gray; the 
re ddi ? i sca P u l ar s are dark cinereous, tinged with 
StroVJ, 1 .own ; the rump is of the same colour, but 
ar e ."V tinged with black, and the superior tail-coverts 
Whi; ,' e P. hlaek ; the under part of the body is milk 
tail.,, ’ *' *' d ai| ks being tinged with red ; the inferior 
black >V f r * S are l >a h‘ rosaceous ; the wings are brownish 
Wcter’, u PP er coverts and secondaries being margined 
* la y and at tip with dull whitish ; the under 
^“8'Co verts are whitish rosaceous; theaxillary feathers, 
t a ;j - e ai| d beneath, are of a vivid scarlet colour. The 
a , ls greatly elongated and excessively forked ; it is of 
tgj, ®?P velvet black colour, each feather having the 
U| al margin of a dull whitish tint, and the shafts 
