. Key to North American birds; containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary. Illustrated by 6 steel plates and upwards of 250 woodcuts. Birds. 170 TYRANNIDiE, FLYCATCHEES. GEN. 105, 106. hut chiefly Eastern United States to Eocky Mountains; rare or casual on the Pacific slope ; abundant in summer. Destro^'s a thousand noxious insects for every bee it cats ! WiLS., i, 66, j)!. 13 ; Add., i, 204, j)!. 56 ; Nutt., i, 265; Bd.,171; Coop., 311 cakolinensis. Gray Kingbird. Five or six outer
. Key to North American birds; containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary. Illustrated by 6 steel plates and upwards of 250 woodcuts. Birds. 170 TYRANNIDiE, FLYCATCHEES. GEN. 105, 106. hut chiefly Eastern United States to Eocky Mountains; rare or casual on the Pacific slope ; abundant in summer. Destro^'s a thousand noxious insects for every bee it cats ! WiLS., i, 66, j)!. 13 ; Add., i, 204, j)!. 56 ; Nutt., i, 265; Bd.,171; Coop., 311 cakolinensis. Gray Kingbird. Five or six outer primaries usually emarginate. Grayish- plumbeous, rather darker on the head, the auriculars dusky ; below white, shaded with ashy on breast and sides, the under wing and tail coverts faintly yellowish; wings and tail dusky, edged with whitish or yellowish; the tail feathers merely indistinctly lighter at the extreme tip. Larger than the last; about 9 ; wing 5J ; tail nearly 5, more or less emarginate ; bill very turgid, an inch long. West Indies ; Florida regularly ; N. to Carolina rarely {Aud- ubon), to Massachusetts accidentally {Allen). Aud., i, 201, pi. 55; Bd., 172 * * Olivaceous and j-ellow; belly and under tail coverts clear yellow, back ashy olive, changing to clear ash on the head, throat and breast, the chin whitening, the lores and auricnlars usually dusky, wings dark brown with whitish edging, tail black or blackish, bill and feet black. Very young liirds paler below, with rufous traces above. 8-9 long ; wing nearlj'5 ; tail about 4 ; bill f-f. Arkansas Flycatcher. Several outer primaries gradually attenuated for a h)ug distance (tig. 110c). Outer web of outer tail feather entirely white. Ash of the fore parts pale, contrasting with dusky lores aud auric- ulars, fading insensibly into white on the chin, and chang- ing gradually to yellow on the belly ; olive predominating over ashy on the back. Western U. S., abundant; acci- dental in Louisiana, New
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