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Tvr annus vertical is. 
For Maine record see A. 0. U. Check List 
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Extracts from letters from George E. Browne to W. Brewster & W. Deane. 
May 26, 1903. "The flycatcher was taken in Elliot, Maine, in 
the fall between 1863 & 1865. I think I can get the month & year 
as it was the last time that I was there. It was badly shot and I 
was not able to sex it". To Wm. Brewster. 
July 22, 1903. "As I think I told you the Arkansas Flycatcher 
was shot in Elliot, Me. during my vacation which must have been in 
August. It was shot by myself on an oak tree some distance from 
where I was staying. It was quite badly mutilated and I threw it 
away but after going some half a mile it bothered me so I went back 
and got it. I made it into a skin as I had not facilities for 
mounting it at that time, but I mounted it myself about a year 
later." x x x "When I shot the Flycatcher I did not keep any 
notes". To W. Deane. Letters oxi file. 
Arkansas Kingbird in Massachusetts. — On October 20, 1912, at 
Monomoy Island, Chatham, Mass., and just off the heel of Cape Cod, I 
shot an immature male Arkansas Kingbird ( Tyrannus verticalis). The 
bird was flitting about some clumps of bayberry bushes, among the sand 
dunes near our club house, and first attracted the attention of our club 
attendant by its bright yellow belly. 
I was unable to get near enough to the bird to examine it closely, for 
while by its actions evidently lost and confused, it was still shy, and I shot 
it on the supposition that it would prove to be in all probability a stray 
Crested Flycatcher. This species has been but seldom seen east of the 
Mississippi River; being, I believe, reported in Wisconsin, New York, New 
Jersey, and Maryland, and once only in New England, a specimen having 
been shot at Elliot, Maine, in October, 1865, by Mr. George E. Brown, as 
reported by Henry A. Purdie in the ' Bulletin of the Nuttall Ornithological 
Club ’ Vol. 1, no. 3, p. 73.— F. H. Kennabd, Boston, Mass. 
