Identifier: ornithologyoyofn00samu (find matches)
Title: Ornithology and oy of New England: containing full descriptions of the birds of New England, and adjoining states and provinces ..
Year: 1867 (1860s)
Authors: Samuels, Edward A. (Edward Augustus), 1836-1908
Subjects: Birds -- New England Birds -- Eggs
Publisher: Boston, Nichols and Noyes
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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, sometimes to thedistance of a mile and more: then, returning to his mate,he perches on the tree by her nest, and twitters a volley ofcourageous songs. The food of the King-bird consists principally of insects,which he captures usually while on the wing. It seems aprovision of nature, that all the Flycatchers shall only takethose insects that have taken flight from the foliage of treesand shrubs, at the same time making the warblers andother birds capture those which remain concealed in suchplaces. The King-bird, in seizing a flying insect, flies in asort of half-flitting hover, and seizes it with a sharp snapof the bill. Sometimes he descends from his perch, andcaptures a grasshopper that has just taken a short flight,and occasionally seizes one that is crawling up some tallstalk of grass. Those farmers who keep bees dislikethis bird because of his bad habit of eating as manyof those insects as show themselves in the neighborhoodof his nest; but they should remember that the general
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\ %„ /KlNO-iiiUD, Tijrannus CaroUncnsis. Baird. TIIP) GREAT-CRESTED FLYCATCHER. 131 interests of agriculture arc greater tliau those of a liive ofbees. About the middle of September, this bird with his fiimilyand neighbors gather into a scattered flock, and depart forthe south, spending the winter in Central America andSouthern Mexico. 5IVIARCHUS, Cabanis. Muinrclms, Cabanis, Fauna Ioniana (1844-4C) 152. Burmeister, Tliiore Bra-siliens, II. Vogcl (1856) 469. Tarsus equal to, or not lon(,ar than, the middle toe, which is decidedly lonf^orthan the hinder one; bill wider at base than half the culnien; tail broad, long, even,or slightly rounded, about equal to the wings, which scarcely reach the middle ofthe tail, the first primary shorter than the sixth; head with elongated lanceolatedistinct feathers; above brownish-olive; throat ash; belly yellow; tail and wingfeatliers varied with rufous. MTIARCHUS CEINITUS. — Cnhanis. The Great-crested Flycatcher. Mmcicapa crinita, Linna-us. Syst

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