Identifier: ournortherneastex00samu (find matches)
Title: Our northern and eastern birds : containing descriptions of the birds of the northern and eastern states and British provinces; together with a history of their habits, times of arrival and departure, their distribution, food, song, time of breeding, and a careful and accurate description of their nests and eggs
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Samuels, Edward A. (Edward Augustus), 1836-1908
Subjects: Birds -- United States
Publisher: New York : R. Worthington
Contributing Library: Claire T. Carney Library, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Digitizing Sponsor: Claire T. Carney Library, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

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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 neighliorhoodof his nest; but they should remember that the general ,>S^X^^-c^
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King-bird, Tjiraiimcs Caiolinensis. Baird. THE GREAT-CRESTED FLYCATCHER, 131 interests of agriculture are greater than those of a hive ofbees. About the middle of September, this bird with his familyand neighbors gather into a scattered flock, and depart forthe south, spending the winter in Central America andSouthern Mexico. MYIARCHUS, Cabanis. Myiarclins, Cabanis, Fauna Peruana (1844-46) 152. Burmeister, Thiere Bra-siliens, II. Vogel (1856) 469. Tarsus equal to, or not longer than, the middle toe, which is decidedly longerthan the hinder one; bill wider at base than half the culmen; 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; belh- yellow; tail and wingfeathers varied with rufous. MYIARCHUS CRINITUS, — CnhanU.The Great-crested Flycatcher. Mnscicapa criniii, Linnwus. Syst. Nat., I. (1766)

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