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reaching nearly to tip. Legs very weak and slender. Beneath more or 
less tinged with fulvous or ochraceous. Nesting unknown. (Page 87.) 
Pyrocephalus. Head with a full crest. Tarsus hut little longer than 
the middle toe ; hind toe not longer than the lateral. Tail broad, even ; 
first quill shorter than the fifth. Beneath, with whole crown bright 
red (except in P. obscurus ). Female very different, lacking the red, 
except posteriorly beneath, and with the breast obsoletely streaked. 
(Page 87.) 
Genus MILVULUS, Swainson. (Page 83.) 
M. forficatus. Whitish-ash above ; rump black. Tail-feathers rose-white 
with black tips; shoulders, axillars, and belly light vermilion. Length, 
13.00; wing, 4.75 ; tail, 8.50. .Rah. Middle America, and open portions of 
Texas, Indian Territory, etc. ; accidental in New Jersey. 
M. tyrannus. Head above and tail black ; the latter edged externally 
with white. Back ashy. Beneath pure white. Length, 14.00 ; wing, 
4.75; tail, 10.00. Rah. Middle America, accidental in Eastern United. 
States. 
Genus TYRANNUS, Cuvier. (Page 83.) 
A. Under parts whitish, without any shade of yellow. A faint grayish- 
plumbeous pectoral band. 
1. T. carolinensis. Tail slightly rounded. Bill much shorter than the 
head. Above black, shading into dark plumbeous on the back. Tail 
abruptly and broadly margined and tipped, with pure white. Length, 
8.50; wing, 4.65; tail, 3.70. {Tyrannus.) Hah. Whole of North 
America, north tp the British Provinces, and south to Panama. Bare 
in the Western Province of North America. ( King- Bird .) 
2. T. dominicensis. Tail moderately forked. Bill longer than the 
head. Above gray ; the tail and wings brownish. The edges and tips 
of the tail narrowly margined with soiled white. Length, 8.00 ; wing, 
4.65; tail, 4.00. ( Melittarchus .) Ilab. West Indies, New Granada, 
Panama, Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina. ( Gray King-Bird.) 
B. Above ashy-olive, becoming purer ash on the head. Tail brown or black. 
; Beneath yellow ; the chin paler ; tl^e breast strongly shaded with olivaceous or 
ashy. ( Laphyctes .) 
q. Tail nearly black; the outer edges of the outer webs of the feathers with 
the fibres united closely throughout, and colored similarly to the rest of the 
feathers ; beneath sulphur-yellow. 
3. T. verticalis. Tail slightly forked ; external feather with the entire 
outer web and the outer half of the shaft abruptly yellowish- white. 
Pectoral band pale ashy, lighter than the back. Length, 8.25; wing, 
4.50. Rob. Western Province of United States. (Arkansas Flycatcher) 
4. T. vociferans. Tail nearly even or slightly rounded ; external 
feather with the shaft brown ; the outer edge only of the outer web 
obscurely yellowish-white, and all the feathers fading into paler at the 
tip. Throat and breast broadly tinged with dark ashy-olive like the 
back. Length, 8.80 ; wing, 5.25 ; tail, 4.25. Rah. Plains and southern 
Middle Province of United States, south into Middle America. ( Cassin's 
Flycatcher .) 
