202 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



to central Nevada, northern New Mexico, southeastern Texas, and southern 

 Florida. Winters from southern Mexico to Colombia, British Guiana, Peru, 

 and Bolivia. Casual in Cuba in migration; accidental in southwestern Green- 

 land. 



Tyrannus dominicensis dominicensis (Gmelin). Gray Kingbird. [445.] 



Lanius dominicensis Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, Pt. i, 1788, 302. Based 

 largely on Le Tyran de S. Domingue, Tyrannus dominicensis Brisson, 

 Orn., II, 394. (in insula S. Dominici et Jamaica = Santo Domingo. )i 

 Range. — Breeds from the coast of southeastern South Carolina (rarely) 

 and Georgia to southern Florida, the Bahamas, Cuba, Porto Rico, Virgin 

 Islands, Haiti, and Jamaica. Migrates along the coast of Middle America from 

 Cozumel Island to Panama, and winters in northern South America (Venezuela 

 and Colombia). Accidental in British Columbia (Vancouver Island), Massa- 

 chusetts, New York (Long Island), and southern New Jersey. [An allied race 

 occurs in the Lesser Antilles.] 



Tyrannus melancholicus couchi Baird. Couch's Kingbird. [446.] 



Tyrannus couchii Baird, in Baird, Cassin, and Lawrence, Rep. Expl. 

 and Surv. R. R. Pac, IX, 1858, xxx, 170, 175. (San Diego and New 

 Leon, Mexico = Nuevo Leon, Mexico.) 



Range. — Breeds in the valley of the Rio Grande, Texas, south through 

 northeastern Mexico to Vera Cruz and Puebla. Ranges farther south in 

 winter. 



• Tyrannus melancholicus chloronotus Berlepsch. Lichtenstein's King- 



bird. [446a.] 



Tyrannus chloronotus Berlepsch, Ornis, XIV, 1907, 474. (Temax, 

 Yucatan.) 



Range. — Southern Mexico from southern Vera Cruz southward to Colombia, 

 Venezuela, and the lower Amazon Valley in Brazil. Accidental in Grenada, 

 Cuba, Maine (Scarborough, October 31, 1915),^ and British Columbia (Van- 

 couver Island, February, 1923).^ 



• Tyrannus melancholicus occidentalis Hartert and Goodson. West 



Mexican Kingbird. [4466.] 

 Tyrannus melancholicus occidentalis Hartert and Goodson, Novitates 

 Zool., XXIV, Pt. 2, 1917, 412. (San Bias, Tepic, Mexico.) 



Range. — Western Mexico in Sinaloa, Nayarit, Jalisco, Colima, and Guerrero. 

 Accidental in Jefferson County, Washington, Nov. 18, 1916.^ 



[Additional races of T. melancholicus occur in southwestern Mexico and 

 South America.] 



1 Sitta curvirostris Hermann (Tabula Affin. Anim., 1783, 204) has been urged 

 as an earlier name applicable to this species. 



2 Norton, Auk, XXXIII, 1916, 382. 

 sKermode, Condor, XXX, 1928, 251. 



* van Rossem, Condor, XXXI, 1929, 182. 



