. American ornithology, for home and school . n pronounce Bird Guide to be the best and only book fulfilling all therequirements of teachers, students and beginners in bird study.—James , Publisher of The Young Idea. Permit me to congratulate you on your Bird Guide. It is truly remarkablehow much you have been able to get into so small a compass,—a working ac-quaintance with over 400 birds in the vest pocket. It will be a boon to the busyteacher.—Dr. C. F. Hodge, Prof, of Biology, Clark University, Mass. Bird Guide is the manual I have been wanting for over twenty-five a boo
. American ornithology, for home and school . n pronounce Bird Guide to be the best and only book fulfilling all therequirements of teachers, students and beginners in bird study.—James , Publisher of The Young Idea. Permit me to congratulate you on your Bird Guide. It is truly remarkablehow much you have been able to get into so small a compass,—a working ac-quaintance with over 400 birds in the vest pocket. It will be a boon to the busyteacher.—Dr. C. F. Hodge, Prof, of Biology, Clark University, Mass. Bird Guide is the manual I have been wanting for over twenty-five a boon it would have been when I was a boy beginning the study of myfeathered neighbors, , to have recommended to my audiences who werealways asking me how they could name all the birds without a gun. Well,at last, in this beautiful little book, we have what we have long handy it is! Neither heavy nor bulky, it fits snugly into my pocket, andaway I hie to the haunts of the birds.—Leander S. Keyser, Author and By Wesley Currier. Kingbird on Nest. 146 AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY. FLYCATCHERS OF THE GENUS TYRANNUS, The Kingbirds are represented in North America by five different speciesof which but two, the common Kingbird and the Gray Kingbird, are regular-ly found east of the Mississippi; one other, the Arkansas Kingbird, has beentaken several times in the east where it had accidentally strayed. The common KINGBIRD, Tyrannns tyrannus (No. 444), is very abund-ant cast of the Mississippi River and is found west to the Rocky name tyrannus is given to birds of this genus because of their so-calledtyrannical habits. However, they are not tyrannical in the ordinary senseof the word for the} rarely or never bully or drive away birds smallerthan themselves, but confine their attentions to birds of prey and other in-jurious birds larger than themselves. The first week in April these black and white-coated Kingbirds reach thesouthern boundary of th
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