. American ornithology, for home and school . the Lower Rio Grande Valley in SouthernTexas. Its habits do not differ from those of the next species but its eggsare rather more pyriform in shape and usually have a ground color of aricher buff shade. ARKANSAS KINGBIRDS, (Tyrannus verticalis), or Western King-birds as they are as often and more appropriately called, are abundant fromKansas and Southern Minnesota west to the Pacific coast and north to Brit-ish Columbia. Like the eastern bird it frequents open country, being mostabundant along river beds and shunning the mountain ranges to a great
. American ornithology, for home and school . the Lower Rio Grande Valley in SouthernTexas. Its habits do not differ from those of the next species but its eggsare rather more pyriform in shape and usually have a ground color of aricher buff shade. ARKANSAS KINGBIRDS, (Tyrannus verticalis), or Western King-birds as they are as often and more appropriately called, are abundant fromKansas and Southern Minnesota west to the Pacific coast and north to Brit-ish Columbia. Like the eastern bird it frequents open country, being mostabundant along river beds and shunning the mountain ranges to a great ex-tent. They are said to be even more noisy than the Eastern Kingbird, andtheir notes are more varied, though the ones commonly used resemble thoseof the latter. They are also said to be less pugnacious towards hawks thanis the eastern bird and instances are at hand of their living in harmony withthem. Like the common Kingbird, they are very playful and are often seenchasing one another, especially in the spring when they are mating.: From. Egg of Cassin Kingbird. their practice at catching insects they have become very skilful and candouble and turn with marvelous rapidity. As is usually the case with allkinds of flycatchers when they dash after their prey you can hear their man-dibles snap together as they catch it, which they rarely fail to do. Theirnests are ordinarily built in the forks of trees ranging in height from fiveto fifty feet from the ground, but they may also be found in almost anyother location, from a fence post to the eave trough of a dwelling, or on therunning gear of a wagon, or the arms of a windmill. The nests are substantially built of weeds, grasses, hair, roots, fibres andusually a lot of trash such as string, rags, paper, and lined with finer ma-terials, being thus very similar to the nests of the Eastern Kingbird. Thethree to five eggs are so near like those of the common Kingbird that theycannot be distinguished, but the average of a large number w
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