. A dictionary of birds . the coasts of China, India and Africagenerally. On the other handthere is one, the ^E. sandx-hehnx,which seems to be restricted tothe island whence it takes itsscientific name, and is there calledthe Wire-bird {This, 1873, (From Buiier.) 260). Nearly allied to .:£f7^a^^^/s are two genera peculiar to theNew-Zealand Region—Thinornis, which, having been separated onthe slightest grounds, does not call for any particular remark, andthe extraordinary Anarhynclms (Wrybill). KILLIGREW, an old name for the CHOUGH. KING-BIRD ^ is the epithet almost universally app
. A dictionary of birds . the coasts of China, India and Africagenerally. On the other handthere is one, the ^E. sandx-hehnx,which seems to be restricted tothe island whence it takes itsscientific name, and is there calledthe Wire-bird {This, 1873, (From Buiier.) 260). Nearly allied to .:£f7^a^^^/s are two genera peculiar to theNew-Zealand Region—Thinornis, which, having been separated onthe slightest grounds, does not call for any particular remark, andthe extraordinary Anarhynclms (Wrybill). KILLIGREW, an old name for the CHOUGH. KING-BIRD ^ is the epithet almost universally applied in theUnited States to the best-knoAni representative of the Ti/rannidx,or the Tyrant Flycatchers. In some of the rural districts, ^ For this article I have to thank tlie well-known American ornithologist, ; but I have to add that more than one species of Teen is called King-bird by sailors, and the name may be often met with in the narrativesof whaling or sealing voyages to the Southern Ocean.—A. KING-BIRD 483 in those quarters of the country where he is a regular migrant,he is familiarly known as the Bee-Martin, a name he hasearned from his fondness for the denizens of the bee-hive. It isonly occasionally that naturalists refer to him as the Tyrant,while to ornithologists generally he is known as Tyrannus carolinensis,belonging to the group of songless Passeres called recent taxonomists, including the present writer, however,are inclined to regard the group as a superfamily of the Passeres,to be designated the Tyrannoidea} Dr. Coues has said of theTyrannidx that Only a small fragment of the family is representedwithin our limits, giving but a vague idea of the numerous andsingularly diversified forms abounding in tropical America. Someof these grade so closely toward other families, that a strict defini-tion of the Tyrannidx becomes extremely difficult; and I am notprepared to offer a satisfactory diagnosis of the whole group{Key N.
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