. Birds of America;. Birds -- North America. 194 BIRDS OF AMERICA parts, white, the center of chest faintly shaded with pale gray passing into deeper gray on sides of chest, sides, and flanks; the under tail-coverts, usually tinged with pale yellow ; under wing-coverts, yellowish-white or pale primrose yellow; inner webs of wing-feathers edged with dull yellowish-white; bill, black; iris, brown. Nest and Eggs.— Nest : Usually in low mangroves or live oaks but sometimes high in trees, near streams; a frail structure of twigs and grass, lined with small plant stems and moss. Egos : 3 or 4, cream
. Birds of America;. Birds -- North America. 194 BIRDS OF AMERICA parts, white, the center of chest faintly shaded with pale gray passing into deeper gray on sides of chest, sides, and flanks; the under tail-coverts, usually tinged with pale yellow ; under wing-coverts, yellowish-white or pale primrose yellow; inner webs of wing-feathers edged with dull yellowish-white; bill, black; iris, brown. Nest and Eggs.— Nest : Usually in low mangroves or live oaks but sometimes high in trees, near streams; a frail structure of twigs and grass, lined with small plant stems and moss. Egos : 3 or 4, creamy or pink- ish-white, spotted and splashed with dark brown and lilac-gray. Distribution.— Breeds from Georgia, southeastern South Carolina, Florida, and Yucatan through the Bahamas and West Indies to northern South America; winters from Jamaica and Haiti southward. This Tyrant Flycatcher much resembles the more common Kingbird, but may be distinguished from that species by its lighter color and larger size. It is a common inhabitant in many of the West India Islands and is also found in numbers in Florida. Rarely it breeds as far north as South Carolina. The Gray Kingbird prefers the country iminediately adjoining the coast, and, although it wanders into the jiine woods at times, it is rare to find one more than a mile from salt water. In Old Tampa Bay many of them spend the summer, and one cannot pass along the shore or row a boat for any great distance among the numerous islands without finding one perched on some snag or bush-top. In this terri- tory the nests are built in mangrove bushes and tisually over the water. The nest is of rootlets, and occasionally one may be found possessing a meager lining of horsehair. It is so loosely woven that as a rule one may see, through the structure, the form of the eggs within. As an indication of their abundance in a favorite local- ity one writer speaks of finding twelve occupied nests while paddling a canoe along a four-mile stre
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