. The illustrated natural history [microform]. Birds; Natural history; Oiseaux; Sciences naturelles. IIAIJTTS or THE KIXCJ BIRD. S.'jI rim ov Cnck-tailo(l â raiHiiif; tlioir l,,,,^, i'owl. These birds Im average lonfrti, [liffer considerablv 11(1 of forest lands of passing insocis, -lying lands w],,;.; ves and ni and rather con vx NNINCJHAM's liusii lerly hupposed (- aunts tiie thickly which geiievidlv , and is ahl'c Dgated and deri K reasiii,-.; rajiidly ii; ' conspicuous, Imt al appendage, by 5 the long ])himes Ire up]K>r snrfapo, 5 white, with tiie tt'hich marks tlie U'kis
. The illustrated natural history [microform]. Birds; Natural history; Oiseaux; Sciences naturelles. IIAIJTTS or THE KIXCJ BIRD. S.'jI rim ov Cnck-tailo(l â raiHiiif; tlioir l,,,,^, i'owl. These birds Im average lonfrti, [liffer considerablv 11(1 of forest lands of passing insocis, -lying lands w],,;.; ves and ni and rather con vx NNINCJHAM's liusii lerly hupposed (- aunts tiie thickly which geiievidlv , and is ahl'c Dgated and deri K reasiii,-.; rajiidly ii; ' conspicuous, Imt al appendage, by 5 the long ])himes Ire up]K>r snrfapo, 5 white, with tiie tt'hich marks tlie U'kish-brown, and iiddy bands. ae of Tyrannuw, combative habits xercise over birds America, and for They have a very ipon insects, but h to their scale oi' wing gradually to The angle of tlic istrils arc ahuost rds which wOl be INT Flycatcher, ogy of America, the United States 1, when its yoiiiij; r him, and darts down upon his baek, sometimes fixing there, to tbf great annoyance of his sovereign, who, if no convenient retreat or resting-place'be jK'ar, endeavours by various evolutions to rid himself of liis Uierciless adversary. Dur the King Bird is not so easily dismounted. He teases the eagle incessantly, sweeps njidii liiiu IVoiij riglit and left, remounts, that he may descend on his back with tlie greater viokiice; d! 'he while keeping up a .shrill and rapid twittering; and continuing the fitt,',. k soiii-iimes for more than a mile, till he is relieved by some other of his "tribe Ki'.ially ei;g(i for the combat. Tiicre is one l)ii(l, h(.W(>ver, which, by its superior rapidity of iliglit, is sometimes uioie than a match tor him ; and I have several times witnessed liis precipitous retreat. KlNCj lMli\i.â ']'i/nuifiuii iidniilihis. before this artive This is the purjde martin, one food and disposition IS prelty similar to his own, l)ut who has greatly the advantage of him on the wing, in (dudnig all his , and teasing him as he pleases. 1 have
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