. Birds of New York . .77 0 4-99 ■ OS .88 0 .04 ■84 0 .98 .99 • 94 .95 2. ri Kingbird Crested flycatcher Phoebe Olive-sided Wood pewee Yellow-bellied flycatcher. Acadian flycatcher Alder flycatcher Least flycatcher . ^Fro
. Birds of New York . .77 0 4-99 ■ OS .88 0 .04 ■84 0 .98 .99 • 94 .95 2. ri Kingbird Crested flycatcher Phoebe Olive-sided Wood pewee Yellow-bellied flycatcher. Acadian flycatcher Alder flycatcher Least flycatcher . ^From Bulletin 44, Biological Survey, U. S. Department of Agriculture 182 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM Tyrannus tyrannus (Linnaeus)Kingbird Plate 67 Lanius tyrannus Linnaeus. Syst. Nat. Ed. 10. 1758. 1:94Tyrannus intrepidus DeKay. Zool. N. Y. 1844. pt 2, p. 117, fig. 72Tyrannus tyrannus A. 0. U. Check List. Ed. 3. 1910. p. 208. No. 444 tyrannus, Lat., a tyrant Description. Upper parts grayish slate color; the wing feathers. Young kingbirds Plloto by James H. Miller blackish; tail black, tipped with white; under parts white, a grayish tinge onthe sides of breast; top of the head blackish concealing a brilliant orangepatch which flashes into view when the bird is excited; bill blackish. Length inches; extent 14-15; wing ; tail ; bill .60. The slaty upper parts of this bird, his white throat and under parts,blackish tail with sharp white tip, combined with his ordinary quiveringand soaring flight low over the fields, with tail spread, make him one ofthe easiest of our common birds for the amateur to recognize. BIRDS OF NEW YORK 183 Distribution. The Kingbird breeds from British Columbia, Macken-zie, Quebec and Newfoundland south to New Mexico and Florida, andspends the winter from southern Mexico to Bolivia and British New York it is a common summer resident in all portions of the Stateexcept the interior of the densely forested regions, but it invades the C
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