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THE TYRANT FLYCATCHER.— KING-BIRD. 
least; the third longest, but the second almost equal ; the fourth and fifth very 
little shorter; the firstmuch longer than the seventh; tail emarginate. Upper 
parts dull ash-grey, shaded with brown posteriorly ; a concealed patch of 
bright vermilion on the top of the head ; wing-coverts, quills and tail 
chocolate-brown, margined with brownish-white ; lower parts anteriorly 
ash-grey, behind greyish-white, tinged with yellow ; lower wing-coverts 
pale sulphur-yellow. Female similar. 
Male, 8§, 141. 
Agati Grandiflora. 
This leguminous plant is one of the handsomest productions of Key-West, 
where I found it in full flower in the month of May. It reaches the height 
of twenty feet or more, and has a rather slender but elegant stem, of which 
the wood is as brittle as that of our common acacias. The pods are eight or 
nine inches in length, and of the size of a Swan’s quill ; the seeds, which 
are dark brown when ripe, glossy and globular, lie at regular intervals. The 
deep green of the long pendulous leaves, and the bright red of the large 
papilionaceous flowers, form a beautiful contrast. Many of these trees were 
planted near the house of my friend Dr. Benjamin Strobel, under whose 
hospitable roof the twig was drawn. I saw no plants of the species on any 
other Key. 
THE TYRANT FLYCATCHER,— KING-BIRD. 
Muscicapa tyrannus, Linn. 
PLATE LVI. — Male and Female. 
The Tyrant Flycatcher, or, as it is commonly named, the Field Martin, 
or King-bird, is one of the most interesting visiters of the United States, 
where it is to be found during spring and summer, and where, were its good 
qualities appreciated as they deserve to be, it would remain unmolested. 
But man being generally disposed to consider in his subjects a single fault 
sufficient to obliterate the remembrance of a thousand good qualities, even 
when the latter are beneficial to his interest, and tend to promote his comfort, 
persecutes the King-bird without mercy, and extends his enmity to its 
whole progeny. This mortal hatred is occasioned by a propensity which the 
Tyrant Flycatcher now and then shews to eat a honey-bee, which the farmer 
looks upon as exclusively his own property. 
