The adult cock paradise flycatcher (Terpsiphone paradisi) is one of the most beautiful birds in the world.
It will be observed that of the above list of Indian birds that are mainly white, only the paradise flycatcher belongs to the great Order of Passeres; moreover, with this exception, all are wading or aquatic birds.
Even more beautiful was the next flycatcherto introduce itself--Tickell's blue flycatcher (Cyornis tickelli).
Its place was taken almost immediately by a red-breasted flycatcher (Siphia parva), a bird very like the English robin in appearance.
The fantailflycatcher (Rhipidura albifrontata) is another study in black and white.
Thus it cometh to pass that the pied crested cuckoo, although he cannot hold a candle to such birds as the paradise flycatcheror the oriole, is able to point the claw of scorn at his fellow-cuckoos.
I had almost forgotten one of the most striking birds in the world--the Indian paradise flycatcher (Terpsiphone paradisi), which certainly is entitled to a place among the common birds of a Madras garden.
In order to study the scissorstailed flycatcher (Milvulus forficatus), of which some friends had told me again and again in a glow of enthusiasm, I made a trip to southern Kansas and northern Oklahoma.
The other member of the genus is the forked-tailed flycatcher (Milvulus tyrannus), a resident of tropical America, migrating north normally as far as southern Mexico.
I once saw a kingbird doing the same thing, and so it may be a fashion in flycatcher circles.
Like all the members of the flycatcher group, the scissorstails capture insects while on the wing, making many an attractive picture as they perform their graceful and interesting evolutions in the air.
Under one of these I was pursuing my amusement, when a flycatcher darted from a tree on the opposite side of the stream, and flew so close to my face that to dip my head out of the way was unavoidable.
The Flycatcher arrives in England about the end of April, and leaves about the end of September.
The "blue" flycatcher of the Quoin Hill area was observed several times in the primary forest and primary forest edge.
The rufous and white forms of an Asiatic Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone paradisi.
This was the most common "blue" flycatcher at Kalabakan.
This flycatcherwas seen only in primary forest, on the above dates.
This flycatcher seems to prefer the understory of the forest, where it was observed sitting on bare limbs and darting out after insects.
In Burma this species is replaced by an allied species--the Burmese Paradise Flycatcher (T.
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A considerable number of species of flycatcher occur in India, but the great majority of them are confined to the hills.
Did you ever see a Flycatcher with a bill that looked as if it could cut wood?
He certainly was the handsomest as well as the largest of the Flycatcher family.
He's as fussy about having a scrap of paper as Cresty the Flycatcher is about having a piece of Snakeskin.
What I want to know is, why should Cresty the Flycatcherask me to please let him know if I found any cast-off suits of the Snake family?
He usually is one of the last of the Flycatcher family to arrive.
Besides berries and seeds, they live upon quantities of insects, frequently catching them on the wing in true Flycatcher style.
This pretty creature is the most graceful in appearance of the Flycatcher family, if not of the whole order of perching birds.
This imposing flycatcher is the largest of the family that is found in North America.
This species is very similar to, but larger, than the well-known Least Flycatcher or Chebec.
The beautiful verditer flycatcher (Stoparola melanops) must be familiar to everyone who has visited the Himalayas.
The brown flycatcher (Alseonax latirostris) is a bird that may pass for a small sparrow if not carefully looked at.
There are yet four other species of flycatcher which, although less frequently seen than the two just mentioned, deserve place among the common birds of the Himalayas.
This flycatcher is a regular visitor in summer to Almora, where it nests.
The grey-headed flycatcher (Culicicapa ceylonensis) is a bird of somewhat sombre plumage.
The next flycatcher that demands notice is the white-browed blue flycatcher (Cyornis superciliaris).
The plumage of this flycatcher is pale blue--blue of that peculiar shade known as verditer blue.
The grey-headed flycatcher (Culicicapa ceylonensis) is a species of which the sexes are alike.
Even more splendid is the paradiseflycatcher (Terpsiphone paradisi).
This flycatcher has a loud song, which may be syllabised: Think of me.
The beautiful little black-and-orange flycatcher (Ochromela nigrirufa) is a bird peculiar to the hills of Southern India.
From every mango tope emanates the cheerful lay of the fantail flycatcher and the lively "Think of me .
Mating hoopoes, however, perform strange antics in the air; they twist and turn and double, just as a flycatcher does when chasing a fleet insect.
May and June are the months in which to look for the nests of that superb bird--the paradise flycatcher (Terpsiphone paradisi).
This is the call of the grey-headed flycatcher (Culicicapa ceylonensis), a bird that visits the plains of northern India every winter.
Never to be" of the grey-headed flycatcher emanates from every tope.
Examples of these more local migrants are the grey-headed and the verditer flycatchers, the Indian bush-chat and, to some extent, the paradise flycatcher and the Indian oriole.
The broad white eyebrow and the manner in which, with drooping wings and tail spread into a fan, this flycatcher waltzes and pirouettes among the branches of a tree render it unmistakable.
The Indian oriole is not the only species which finds the climate of the United Provinces too severe for it in winter; the koel and the paradise flycatcher likewise desert us in the coldest months.
Down upon him like a small tornado came the flycatcher instantly, expecting, apparently, to annihilate him.
I heard the snap of the woodpecker's beak as he passed into the thick woods, but nobody was hurt, and the flycatcherreturned to his perch.
But alas, from the moment of yielding to her vanity or her love for ease, troubles began in the flycatcher family.
But the big, clumsy woodpecker merely slid one side a little, to avoid the onslaught, and calmly went on dressing his feathers as if no small flycatcher existed.
More interesting, even, than this flycatcher episode was an adventure one evening when I walked far out on a road, one side of which was deep woods, while the other was bordered by pasture and meadows.
The flycatcher went on preening its lovely feathers.
Have you heard that the flycatcher is from Quetzalcoatl?
A blue flycatcher lit on a mossy log, where it preened its wing and tail feathers lazily.
Not much can be said of this flycatcher family, except that it is useful--a kind of virtue that gets its chief reward in heaven.
Everybody knows, however, the success each flycatcher of them has thus far attained.
With the exception of a wren with a fine yellow breast, and of a tyrant-flycatcher with a scarlet tuft and breast, none of the birds are brilliantly coloured, as might have been expected in an equatorial district.
The Traill Flycatcheris a local summer resident in extreme northeastern Kansas (Doniphan County), in wet woodland and riparian groves.
This flycatcher has only recently been found nesting within Kansas; the species is not included in analyses above.
This subspecies of Vermilion Flycatcher occupies the northwestern section of Coahuila.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "flycatcher" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
