. Handbook of birds of the western United States, including the great plains, great basin, Pacific slope, and lower Rio Grande Valley . Fig. 325. duller, wing coverts bordered with buffy. Length : , wing , tail , bill from nostril . Remarks. - - Verticalis, though very similar to vociferans, can be distin-guished in the field by the abruptly white and sharply contrasting outeredge of the black tail, and in the hand by the attenuated wing feathers. Distribution. — Breeds in Transition and Upper Sonoran zones of west-ern United States from Nebraska and Kansas to
. Handbook of birds of the western United States, including the great plains, great basin, Pacific slope, and lower Rio Grande Valley . Fig. 325. duller, wing coverts bordered with buffy. Length : , wing , tail , bill from nostril . Remarks. - - Verticalis, though very similar to vociferans, can be distin-guished in the field by the abruptly white and sharply contrasting outeredge of the black tail, and in the hand by the attenuated wing feathers. Distribution. — Breeds in Transition and Upper Sonoran zones of west-ern United States from Nebraska and Kansas to the Pacific; and from. >,/ tf?*niz . f - f - ARKANSAS AND CASSIN KINGBIRDS tFLYCATCHERS 249 Assiniboia and British Columbia south through Lower California ; migratesthrough western Mexico to Guatemala. -\f*t.—In bushes or trees usually not far from the ground, made oftwigs, weed stems, plant fibers, rootlets, wool, cocoons, hair, feathers,string, thistle down, and paper. Eyyx: usually 4, similar to those of Tyran-nus tyrannus. Food. — Mainly grasshoppers, with moths, butterflies, flies, winged ants,caterpillars, and large black crickets. The Arkansas kingbird is a masterful, positive character, and whenyou come into his neighborhood you are very likely to know it, forhe seems to be always screaming and scrimmaging. If he is not over-head twisting and turning with wings open and square tail spreadso wide that it shows the white lines that border it, he is climbingup the air claw to claw with a rival, falling to ground clinched withhim, or dashing after a hawk, screaming in thin falsetto like a scis-so
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