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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo06amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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BIRDS OF THE JICINITY OF NEW YORK CITV i6i Family TROCIiILID.-E. Hummingbirds. *Ruby-throated Hummingbird ( 7^r()(7///».j colubris). This, the only species of Hummingbird found in eastern Xortli America, is here a common summer resident, arriving' ear1\- in Afav and remainins: until October.
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Fig. 13. RuBY-THRO.\TED Hummingbirds and Nest. Order P/\SSERES. Perching Birds. Family TYRANNID-E. Ty'rant Flycatchers. ♦Kingbird us tyrainiiis). A common summer resident, arriving- early in ^lay and remaining until October. (See group, third floor). Arkansas Kingbird (Tyrcinnus z'crticalis). A western species; the only records for this vicinity are those of a young male taken at Riverdale, N. Y., October 19, 1875, (Bicknell, Bull, N. O. C, IV, 1879, p. 60), and a specimen taken at Princeton, N. J., Sept. 29, 1894 (Phillips, Proc. D. V. O. C, H, p. 14). *Great-crested Flycatcher (Myiarclius crinitus). A common summer resident, arriving early in Alay and remaining until September. *PhcEbe (Sayornis p/iocbe). A common summer resident arriving about March 20 and leaving early in November. ♦Olive-sided Flycatcher (A'h/fa/or;;/.? &f;v(7/;'.y). A migrant passing north in May, when it is apparently rare, and returning between the latter part of August and late September, when it is not uncommon.

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