Fork-tailed flycatcher

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(Zool.) a tropical American flycatcher (Milvulus tyrannus).

See also: Fork-tailed

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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A bird with a forked tail, terminated by two long feathers (Tyrannus savana), and named by the Spaniards scissor-tail, is very common near Buenos Ayres: it commonly sits on a branch of the ombu tree, near a house, and thence takes a short flight in pursuit of insects, and returns to the same spot.
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melancholicus, Tyrannus savana and Empidonomus varius, all from Tyrannidae family (Table 2).
Use of perches and seed dispersal by birds in an abandoned pasture in the Porto Ferreira state park, southeastern Brazil/Uso de poleiros e dispersao de sementes por aves em um pasto abandonado no Parque Estadual de Porto Ferreira, sudeste do Brasil

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