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ARKANSAW FLYCATCHER. 
Upper California, I have not been able to find the nest, which is probably 
made in low thickets, where it would be consequently easily overlooked. 
In the Rocky Mountains they do not probably breed before midsummer, as 
they are still together in noisy quarrelsome bands until the middle of June.” 
Mr. Townsend’s notice respecting it is as follows : “ This is the Chloio- 
ish-pil of the Chinooks. It is numerous along the banks of the Platte, par- 
ticularly in the vicinity of trees and bushes. It is found also, though not 
so abundantly, across the whole range of the Rocky Mountains ; and along 
the banks of the Columbia to the ocean, it is a very common species. Its 
voice is much more musical than is usual with birds of its genus, and its 
motions are remarkably quick and graceful. Its flight is often long sus- 
tained, and like the Common King-bird, with which it associates, it is fre- 
quently seen to rest in the air, maintaining its position for a considerable 
time. The males are wonderfully’ belligerent, fighting almost constantly, 
and with great fury, and their loud notes of anger and defiance remind one 
strongly of the discordant grating and creaking of a rusty door-hinge. 
The Indians of the Columbia accuse them of a propensity to destroy the 
young and eat the eggs of other birds.” 
Tyrannus verticalis, Say, Long’s Exped., vol. ii. p. 60. 
Arkansaw Flycatcher, Muscicapa verticalis , Bonap. Amer. Orn., vol. i. p. 18, 
Muscicapa verticalis, Bonap. Syn., p. 67. 
Arkansaw Flycatcher, Muscicapa verticalis , Nutt. Man., vol. i. p. 273. 
Arkansaw Flycatcher, Muscicapa verticalis , Aud. Orn. Biog., vol. iv. p. 422. 
The outer five primaries much attenuated toward the end, the first more 
so, the fifth least, the third longest, but the outer four nearly equal ; tail 
almost even. Upper parts ash-grey, the back tinged with yellow ; a patch 
of bright vermilion on the top of the head ; wing-coverts and quills choco- 
late-brown ; upper tail-coverts and tail black, the outer web of the lateral 
feathers vellowish-white ; throat greyish-white, sides and fore part of neck 
ash-grey, the rest of the lower parts pure yellow. Female similar. 
Male, 9, 15S. 
