Tyrannus tyrannus 1897. Lake Umbagog. S. P. = Leonard's Pond O. = Outlet. May 14-17 (Billings) 22 30 31 3 Near Ballston " " S. P. Botts Brook. S.W. to F. O. June 1-2 Pond - 4-5 6 7 2 hours & 2 Outlet. June 15 midway between Dixville Notch and Colebrook, N.H., I saw a Kingbird sitting on a dead tree. Three Goldfinches alighted on a branch beneath him. The Kingbird at once swooped down at them when they flitted off in different directions, evidently much frightened. The Kingbird pursued one of them with the utmost energy and determination to outstrip it equal to that of a hungry Peregrine Hawk and at a scarcely less rapid rate of speed. Indeed it overtook the Goldfinch with the utmost ease but the latter, resorting to the tactics adopted by most small birds under similar circumstances doubled & thus gained some slight ground. Shortly every time its pursuer came up with it this was repeated from times in quick succession. Then the chase passed beyond my view behind some large trees & I do not know how it ended but at the last the Goldfinch seemed to be following the Kingbird to be on the point of seizing it. Scarcely a minute further on I saw another Kingbird attack and give chase to a Flicker which alighted on the ground near a fence on which the Kingbird was sitting. Here again the two birds disappeared just as the Kingbird was outstripping the Flicker. 1903 June 4' 5² 6² 7³ 10² Bethel. " 9⁴ Norway " 11⁸ Bethel to Upton, " 12² / 13² 14³ Flooded meadows mouth of Candady Run, Upton. 38