Tyrannus carol inensus. 
1892. 
July 18 
(No. 5) 
Aug. 20. 
Mass. 
. 0 on cord . - I now see many broods of young Kingbirds accompanied 
by their parents sitting on bushes along the river and usually 
well our over the water. The young are more active and animated 
than most birds of their age and already show much of the irri- 
table quarrelsome disposition so characteristic of their species 
The parents are feeding them largely on Dragon flies and I see 
them chasing these insects continually not always with success 
for the Dragon fly is a good dodger and Kingbird's stock of 
patience small. A bird to-day pursued a dragon fly upwards to 
a height of more than a hundred feet and after snapping at it 
vainly four or five times in quick succession gave up the chase 
in evident great disgust And sailed down and back to its dis- 
King- 
birds. 
appointed brood which were sitting on a button bush. 
.Concord.- Kingbirds seem to have diminished greatly in numbers Tyrannus. 
during the past few days. 
