In examples so conspicuous the movement is obvious enough; but in the case of rarer species, for instance, the olive-sided flycatcher, who can tell whether, when first observed, it was new to naturalists merely, or to this part of the country, or to the earth generally?

Blue jays and crested flycatchers were doing their best to outscream one another,with the odds in favor of the flycatchers,and a few smaller birds were singing, especially two or three summer tanagers, as many yellow-throated warblers, and a ruby-crowned kinglet.

Blue jays and crested flycatchers were doing their best to outscream one another,with the odds in favor of the flycatchers,and a few smaller birds were singing, especially two or three summer tanagers, as many yellow-throated warblers, and a ruby-crowned kinglet.

The paradise flycatcher flutters two streamers a foot long, like white ribbons, behind it.

Dr. Heerman, of California, describes the California Melanerpes as one of the most abundant of the woodpeckers; and remarks that it catches insects on the wing like a flycatcher.

But the most conspicuous birds I saw were members of the family of tyrant flycatchers, of which our own king-bird is the most familiar example.

It is hard to imagine a more conspicuous bird than the silver-bill; but the next and last tyrant flycatcher of which I shall speak possesses on the whole the most advertising coloration of any small bird I have ever seen in the open country, and moreover this advertising coloration exists in both sexes and throughout the year.

There was one showy kind of king-bird or tyrant flycatcher, lustrous black with a white head.

It catches its prey and ordinarily acts like a rather dull flycatcher, perching on some dead tree, swooping on insects and then returning to its perch, and never going on the ground to feed or run about.

Now and then little troops of birds of many kinds passedwood-hewers, ant-thrushes, tanagers, flycatchers; as in the spring and fall similar troops of warblers, chickadees, and nuthatches pass through our northern woods.

The ground was soft enough to let the earthworms come up to breathe, so that Robins could catch them easily, and the air was full of all kinds of insects newly out from their long winter sleep in their soft cocoon beds, much to the delight of the Swallows and Flycatchers.

Some birds, as the Swallows and Flycatchers, skim through the air to catch winged insects.

THE PHOEBE (THE WATER PEWEE) "Smaller, but not a whit less active than the Kingbird is the Phoebe or Water Peweethe small Flycatcher who is almost as familiar about the farm and roadside as the Robin himself.

"Phoebe is a hardy Flycatcher, who journeys north in March to tell us spring is coming, and it takes a hard frost to send him away again.

Then all the Swallows and Flycatchers began to dash about the air, whispering "Citizen Bird!

The Flycatcher's Egg XXVIII.

The Flycatcher's Egg.

One day a herd boy found a flycatcher's egg and he brought it home and asked his mother to cook it for him, but she put it on a shelf and forgot about it.

No sooner had she gone to work than a bonga girl used to come out of the flycatcher's egg and first eat up the rice that had been left for the herd boy and then quickly put water on to boil and cook some rice with pulse; and, having eaten part of it, cover up the rest, ready for the herd boy on his return.

One day he came to the palace of the Raja who had carried off his wife; as he begged he heard his wife's voice, so he sang: "Give me, oh give me, my flycatcher wife, Give me my many-coloured wife.

One of the best known of the flycatchers all over the country is the kingbird.

Mr. Bynoe was not fortunate enough to add to his collection of birds; those he observed being only doves and parrots, besides a flycatcher common to parts of the coast, and often before met with by us.

Among the regular visitors are included the white wagtail, the pied flycatcher, the nightjar, the black redstart, the lesser redpole, the snow bunting, the redwing, the reed, marsh, and grasshopper warblers, the siskin, the dotterel, the sanderling, the wryneck, the hobby, the merlin, the bittern, and the shoveller.

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The Red-eyed Flycatcher has a loud, lively, and energetic song, which is continued sometimes for an hour without intermission.