. Handbook of birds of the western United States, including the great plains, great basin, Pacific slope, and lower Rio Grande Valley . Fig. ARKANSAS AND CASSIN KINGBIRDS FLYCATCHERS 249 Assiniboia and Britisli Columbia south through Lower California ; migratestlirough western Mexico to Guatemala. Nest. — In bushes or trees usually not far from the ground, made oftwigs, weed stems, plant fibers, rootlets, wool, cocoons, hair, feathers,string-, thistle down, and paper. Eyys: usually 4, similar to those of Tyran-nus tyrannus. Food. — Mainly grasshoppers, with moths, butterflies, flies, win
. Handbook of birds of the western United States, including the great plains, great basin, Pacific slope, and lower Rio Grande Valley . Fig. ARKANSAS AND CASSIN KINGBIRDS FLYCATCHERS 249 Assiniboia and Britisli Columbia south through Lower California ; migratestlirough western Mexico to Guatemala. Nest. — In bushes or trees usually not far from the ground, made oftwigs, weed stems, plant fibers, rootlets, wool, cocoons, hair, feathers,string-, thistle down, and paper. Eyys: usually 4, similar to those of Tyran-nus tyrannus. Food. — Mainly grasshoppers, with moths, butterflies, flies, wing-ed ants,caterpillars, and large black crickets. The Arkansas kingbird is a masterful, positive character, and whenyou come into his neighborhood you are ver}- likely to know it, forhe seems to be always screaming and scrimmaging. If he is not over-head twisting and turning with wings open and square tail spreads« wide that it shows the white lines that border it, he is climbingup the air claw to claw with a rival, falling to ground clinched witlihim, or dashing after a hawk, screaming in thin falsetto like a scis-sor-tail flycatcher.
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