BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 697 



(W. D.), Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., xxi, 1905, 358 (Escuinapa, Sinaloa, Jan.); 



xxii, 190G, 168 (Cienega dc las Vacas, Rio Scstin, and Rancho I'aillon, 



Durango, breeding). 

 [Tyrannus] vodferans Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 364, no. 5550. — Coues, Key N. 



Am. Birds, 1872, 170.— Sclater and Sat.vin, Norn. Av. Neotr., 1873, 53.— 



Sharpe, Hand-list, iii, 1901, 149. 

 T[yrannus] vodferans Coues, Key N. Am. Bird.s, 2d ed., 1884, 433; 5th ed., i, 



1903, 515.— RiDGWAY, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, .330. 

 T[yrannus] verticolis (not of Say) Hartlai-r, Syst. Vorz., 1844, 49, part 



(Mexico). 

 L[aphyctes] vodferans ("abanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., ii, Oct., 1859, 77 (Mexico). 

 [Lapkyctes] vodferans Heine and Reichenow, Nom. Mus. Hein. Orn., 1890, 147 



(Mexico). 

 Tyrannus cassinii Lawrence, Ann. Lye. Xat. Ili.^t. N. Y., v, 1852, 39, pi. 3, lig. 2 



(Texas; coll. G. N. Lawrence?). — Baird. in Stansbury's Rep. Gt. Salt Lake, 



1853, 329 (Texas). 



TYRANNUS VERTICALIS Say. 

 ARKANSAS KINGBIRD. 



Adult male. — Pileum and hindneck plain gray (no. 6), the crown 

 with a large concealed patch of reddish orange or orange-red (orpi- 

 ment orange to orange-chrome) underlaid posteriorly and laterally 

 by an admixture of white and yellow; back, scapulars, and upper 

 rump plain yellowish gra}^ or light yellowish olive, the lower rump 

 grayer, with feathers darker centrally; upper tail-coverts black, 

 sometimes with indistinct grayish margins; tail black, the outer web 

 and shaft of outermost rectrix wholly white or yellowish white, except 

 (sometimes) part of terminal portion;" wings deep to chirk grayish 

 brown, all the feathers narrowly margined or edged with paler; lores 

 mixed gray and dusky; auricular region (except lower portion) gray, 

 more or less conspicuously darker than color of pileum; lower anterior 

 portion of auricular region, suborbital region, malar region, chin, and 

 upper tlu-oat white or grayish white, passing gradually into pale gray 

 (no. 9 to no. 10) on lower throat and chest; rest of under parts canary 

 yellow, paler (primrose yellow) on under tail-coverts, shading into 

 light 3^ellowish olive or olive-yellow on sides, flanks, and upper breast; 

 axillars and under wing-coverts pale yellowish gray margined with 

 pale yellow ; inner webs of remiges edged with very pale grayish yel- 

 low or dull yellowish white; bill black or brownish black, the basal 

 portion of mandible slightly more brownish; iris brown; legs and 

 feet brownish black; length (skins), LS5-224 (206); wing, 125-134.5 

 (130.1); tail, 87-97.5 (93.5); exposed culmen, 16-21 (18.7); tarsus, 

 16.5-20 (18.8); middle toe, 12.5-15 (13.9). ^ 



a Sometimes the rectrices are narrowly margined terminally with pale grayish brown 

 or whitish. 



b Twenty-eight specimens. 



