368 BIRDS—TYRANNIDZ. 
the borders of streams, old fields and fence rows. Mr. Langdon 
mentions their especial abundance in “ woods and groves” bordering 
marshes on the northern shore of Lake Erie. In this city they have 
evidently greatly increased in numbers, as well as others of the family, 
and I have thought this increase coincident with, and because of, the 
introduction of water works. | 
The nest of the King-bird is built in trees, very frequently a sycamore 
or elm near a stream, or an isolated tree in the middle of a field is chosen. 
Orchards afford favorite nesting sites. The nest is usually placed from 
twenty to thirty feet above the ground, on or in the fork of a limb. It 
is composed of coarse grasses, rootlets and vegetable fibers, well lined 
with fine grass, feathers, and hair. The egos are generally four, some- 
times six, of a rich creamy white color, spotted and blotched with dark 
rich brown. They measure .95 by .70. I once found the nest placed in 
the perpendicular fork of a small willow which grew up from the bottom 
ofa pond. The nest was hardly a foot above water, and was much more 
neatly and compactly built than is ordinarily the case. 
GENUS MYIARCHUS. Cabanis. 
Head moderately crested. Wings about equal to the long, broad, even tail, scarcely 
reaching to its middle; 1st primary shorter than 6th. Tarsus equal to middle toe, which 
is decidedly longer than hind toe. 
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MytIarRcHus GRINITUS (L.) Cab. 
Great Crested Wlycatcher. 
Muscicapa crinita, KIRTLAND, Ohio Geolog. Surv., 1838, 163.—AuDUBON, B. Am., i, 1840, 
211; Orn. Biog., ii, 1834, 166. y 
Tyrannus crinitus, ReaD, Fam. Visitor, iii, 1853, 351; Proc. Phila. Acad. Nat. Sci., vi, 
1853, 395. 
Myiarchus crinitus, BAIRD, P. Rh. R. Rep., ix, 1858, 179.— KIRKPATRICK, Ohio Farmer, Vili, 
1859, 379.—WHEATON, Ohio Agric. Rep. for 1860, 1861, 362; Reprint, 4; Food of 
Birds, etc., Ohio Agric. Rep. for 1074, 1875, 568; Reprint, Sit aecanann Cat, Birds 
of Cin., 1877, 10; Revised List, Journ. Cin. Soc. Nat. Hist., i, 1879, 177; pepe ibis 
Summer Birds, ib. , iii, 1880, 225. 
“Muscicapa crinita, LINNAUS, Syst. Nat., 1776, 326 
Tyrannus crinitus, SWAINSON, Zool. Journ., xx, 1826, 271. 
Myjiarchus crinitus, CABANIS, J. f. O., 1855, 479. 
Decidedly olivaceous above, a little browner on the head, where the feathers have dark 
centers; throat and fore breast pure dark ash, rest of under parts bright yellow, the two 
colors meeting abraptly ; primaries margined on both edges with chestnut; secondaries 
and coverts edged and tipped with yellowish white; tail, with all the feathers but the 
central pair, chestnut on the whole of the inner web, excepting y, perhaps, a very nar- 
