CCEUR DE LION 
“ He would come blustering upon them, like a sudden 
wind among dead leaves, and drive them all apart."” — 
Tennyson, Idylls of the King. 
DASHING, dauntless cavalier is this 
1 . tyrant flycatcher, or kingbird ; well- 
named, too, for he it is who makes life miser- 
able for the crows, who drives all feathered 
intruders from his nest tree, and tolerates no 
interference with his domestic affairs. He 
it is who sits swinging on a barbed-wire 
fence or weed-stalk, and does not trouble 
himself to move as you stroll by. 
His nest is usually built in an orchard, 
high in the branches of an old apple-tree, 
and woe to any bird who alights there. Red- 
headed woodpeckers, towhees, * orioles, and 
cuckoos I have seen routed in one morning. 
An apple orchard is not the usual resort of 
towhees, but this pair were original. Hav- 
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