. A manual of the ornithology of the United States and of Canada : the land birds . MH ■. KING-BIRD, or TYRANT FLYCATCHER. (Tyrannus ititrepidus, Vieill. Bonap. Musicapa tyrannus, Audubon, pi. 79. Lanius tyrannus, Lin. Wilson, ii. pi. 13. fig. 1. Phil. Museum, No. 578.) Spec. Charact. — Blackish, beneath nearly white; tail even, ex-tending far beyond the wings, black, tipped with white. — Adultwith a scarlet spot on the crown. Tins well known, remarkable and pugnacious bird takesup bis summer residence in all the intermediate region,from the temperate parts of Mexico to the
. A manual of the ornithology of the United States and of Canada : the land birds . MH ■. KING-BIRD, or TYRANT FLYCATCHER. (Tyrannus ititrepidus, Vieill. Bonap. Musicapa tyrannus, Audubon, pi. 79. Lanius tyrannus, Lin. Wilson, ii. pi. 13. fig. 1. Phil. Museum, No. 578.) Spec. Charact. — Blackish, beneath nearly white; tail even, ex-tending far beyond the wings, black, tipped with white. — Adultwith a scarlet spot on the crown. Tins well known, remarkable and pugnacious bird takesup bis summer residence in all the intermediate region,from the temperate parts of Mexico to the uninhabited and KING-BIRD, OR TYRANT FLYCATCHER. 293 remote interior of Canada.* In all this vast geographicalrange the King-bird seeks his food and rears his to Audubon, they appear in Louisiana by themiddle of March, and about the 20th of April, Wilson re-marked their arrival in Pennsylvania in small parties of 5or 6; but they are seldom seen in this part of New Eng-land before the middle of May. They are now silent andpeaceable, until they begin to pair, and for
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