PASSERES TYRANNIDAE TYRANNUS CAROLINENSIS. 341 



FAM. TYRAOTIDAE: FLYCATCHERS. 



TYRANNUS CAROLINENSIS (Linn.)- 



Kingbird. 



Tyrannm carolinensis, TEMM., Tab. Metb., 24. BD., Birds N. A., 1858, 171. COOP. & 

 SUCKL., P. R. R. Rep., xii, pt. ii, 1800, 1G7. HAYD., Trans. Am. Pbil. Soc., 

 xii. 1802, 157. COOPER, Birds Cal., i, 1870, 311. STEV., U. S. Geol. Surv. 

 Terr., 1870, 403. ALLEN, Bui. Mus. Comp. Zool., 1872, 179 (Kansas; Colo- 

 rado ; Utah). COUES, Key N. A. Birds, 1872, 100, pi. 2, figs. 1, 2. SNOW, 

 Birds Kau., 1872, 0. HOLD, apud AIKEN, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist,, 1872, 

 205. MERRIAM, U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr., 1872, 089 (Idabo). BD., BREW., 

 & RIDG., N. A. Birds, iii, 1874, 310, pi. 43, f. 4. YARROW & HENSHAW, 

 Rep. Orn. Specs., 1872, Wheeler's Exped., 1874, 21. HENSHAW, An. Lye. 

 Nat. Hist. N. Y., xi, 1874, l.Id., An. List Birds Utab, 1872, Wbeeler's 

 Exped., 1874, 40. Id., Rep. Orn. Specs., 1873, Wbeeler's Exped., 1874, 05. 

 ALLEN, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., June, 1874, 10, 17, 31. COUES, Birds 

 Nortbwest, 1874, 235. 



Ttjrannus intrepidus, WOODH., Sitgreave's Exp. Zufli & Col. Riv., 1854, 73. 



The Kingbird has until recently been considered as a characteristic 

 bird only of the Eastern Region. It is now known, however, as shown by 

 the above citations, to occur at many points in the Middle Province, and, 

 indeed, at certain localities it occupies almost as conspicuous a place in the 

 bird fauna as in the Eastern States. Throughout Utah generally, it can 

 scarcely be considered common ; yet, at Provo, in July, individuals were 

 nearly if not quite as numerous as the kindred species, the Arkansas Fly- 

 catcher; and Mr. Ridgway speaks of it as being nearly or quite as common 

 as that bird in Great Salt Lake Valley and the Wahsatch Mountains. He 

 likewise found it common and breeding on the extreme western edge of the 

 Great Basin in the Truckee Valley, Nevada. 



Near Denver, Colo., the species made its appearance May 7, and I noticed 

 that, while the Arkansas Flycatcher resorted to the trees and wooded districts 

 generally, the Kingbird seemed to frequent the more open plain, making 

 its sallies after insects from the tops of the tall weeds. It has not been 

 detected in Arizona or New Mexico, either by our parties or by other 

 observers. It thus probably reaches its western limits by passing northward 



