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     relieve her by watching the nest. and thus give her an opportunity to 
     
     seek food for herself. I never saw a Kingbird either assist in brooding,r 
     
     or carry food to his mate, but his manners to her are most affection- 
     
     ate. and he is untiring in his labors in the feeding of the young. 
     
    

    
     'l‘his bird is aeeused oi beingr quarrelsonie and aggressive to other 
     
     birds, and his scientific name means Ty‘ant Fly -ateher, but in my 
     
     study of his ways I have found him less aggressive than are most; birds 
     
     in the neighborhoml of their nest. With the exception of the Crow, 
     
     against whom he seems to have a special grudge, I have never seen a. 
     
     Kingbird take notiee of any bird unless he alighted near his nest, and 
     
     the meekest creature that wears feathers will try to drive away stran- 
     
     gers who approach that sacred spot. 
     
    

    
     The calls and cries of the Kingbird are generally loud and attract- 
     
     ive, if not particularly musi ~al. but while his mate is sitting—and pos- 
     
     sihly at other times—he indulges in a soft and very pleasing song, 
     
     which I have heard only in the very early morninr’. 
     
    

    
     OLIVE Tnoaxt; MILLER. 
     
    
   
   
    
     445. Tyrannus dominicensis (Gnu/1.). (may KINUTHHD. Adfi 
     
     Upper parts ashy gray : a eoncealed orange-red erown pateh ; wi ’rs and tail 
     
     fuseous; under wing-eoverts pale sulphur—yellow; under parts white, tinged 
     
     with grayish on the breast. L., 9'00; \V., 4'60; T., 21-5”; B. t'rom N., '80. 
     
    

    
     It’ung/(A—Breeds from the coast of South (‘arolina soutlm‘ard through 
     
     Florida and the Greater Antilles; winters in the Lesser Antilles, Mexico, and 
     
     Central Americ: ; aeeidental in Massachusetts. 
     
    

    
     Al‘s-t, of grass and needs, lined with fine grass and rootlets. in bushes. 
     
     Eyg/s, tour, deep salmon. irregularly spotted and hlotehed with umber and 
     
     lilac, 1'01) x '77) (Maynard). 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     The Gray Kingbird is a common summer resident of parts of our 
     
     South Atlantic States, arriving early in May. It resembles the King- 
     
     bird in appea'ance, but lacks the white hand at, the end of the tail, 
     
     and has quite ditferent notes. Its usual call is a vigorous pith-r17, 
     
     prtlrri, whieh in Cuba gives it, its common name. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The ARK-mus KINnr-Hu» 1.147. 7://I‘IHZIHIN ravioli/"xi, a western species, 
     
     has been talien in Iowa. Distriet ot' ('oluntbia, Maine, New Jersey, and New 
     
     York. 
     
    

    
     452. Myiarchus crinitus (Linn). (‘nxzsrnn FLvaciii-jn; (lltl-‘fl‘ 
     
     (‘nizs‘rlan FI.Y('.\'I'UIll-jlt. .vtili mlipper parts grayish brown. washed with olive- 
     
     ;zreen : outer vane ot' primaries margined with pale rut'ous; innwr mm of all 
     
     but the middle tail-feathers [HI/fl I'M/our ,' throat and breast pearlsgray; belly 
     
     sulphur-yellow. In, 9'01: W.. 414; 13.375; B. from N.. '63. 
     
    

    
     [fought—Breeds from Florida to New Brunswick; winters from southern 
     
     l’lorida to (‘entral America. 
     
    

    
     Washington. very common S. R. Apl. 25 to Sept. Sin;r Sing, common 
     
     8. l{., May 7 to Sept. 12. Cambridge, unconnnon 5.1L, May 15 to Aug.