File:Handbook of birds of the western United States including the great plains, great basin, Pacific slope, and lower Rio Grande valley (1908) (14561866160).jpg

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Title: Handbook of birds of the western United States including the great plains, great basin, Pacific slope, and lower Rio Grande valley
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Bailey, Florence Merriam, 1863-1948
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ARKANSAS KINGBIRD 2. CASSIN KINGBIRD FLYCATCHERS 249 Assiniboia and British Columbia south through Lower California; migratesthrough 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. Eggs: usually 4, similar to those of Tyran-nus tyrannus. Food. — Mainly grasshoppers, with moths, butterflies, flies, winged ants,caterpillars, and large black crickets. The Arkansas kingbird is a masterful, positive character, and whenyou come into his neighborhood you are very 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 spreadso 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 withhim, or dashing after a hawk, screaming in thin falsetto like a scis-sor-tail flycatcher.

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