Tyrannus carolinensis. 
Middlesex County, Mass 
1865. 
May 30, 
1866. 
May 31, 
1867. 
May 31. 
June 15, 
1868. 
May 6, 
“ 10 . 
Nest, four eggs (Deane). 
Nest Just finished. 
Savr one building. 
Pound a nest v/ith four eggs. 
Seen at Concord to-day. 
One to-day. 
Pound a nest ready for the eggs. It was built in 
the upright fork of a willov^ tree only about eighteen 
inches above the surface of the water in which the tree 
was grovring. 
Juno 15, 
Pound a nest placed in a low bush growing in the 
centre of a snail pond, in fact Just such a place as a 
Red-wing would select. 
Aug, 9, Still numerous. 
1869. 
May 18. One. 
1870. 
Apr, 37. Seen at West Newton (C.J.M,). 
1871. 
May 6, 
1869. 
June 9, 
1870. 
Juno 6. 
1875. 
May 10, 
“ 29. 
Shot two males which when living, I had took to be 
a pair, as they kept close together, alighting side by 
side and following one another in all their flights. 
Nest v/ith two fresh eggs. 
Pound six inhabited nests on Concord River in the 
space of a mile. All wore placed in bushes growing in 
the vmtor, and at an average height of about two feet ovjr 
the water. We found some nests within twenty yards 
of oacn other, surprisingly near for such quarrelsome 
birds. The pair were always in the immediate vicinity 
and on several occasions the females weres itting steadi¬ 
ly on empty nests. ** 
Numbers. 
Several nests on Concord River on low branches over¬ 
hanging waWer. 
