BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 705 



TYRANNUS MELANCHOLICUS COUCHII (Baird). 

 COUCH S KINGBIRD. 



Similar to the lijrhter colored examples of T. m. mirapa but decid- 

 edly larger, grayish brown of tail and wings paler chm and upper 

 throat more purdy white, color of chest more yellowish, and mantle " 

 more uniformly yellowish olive-green.« ..,w,.>.-v^ 



.U/.// ma/.. -Length (skins), 215-223 (219); wmg, 124-1.31 (lib.S), 

 tail, 101-108 (104.3); exposed culmen, 21-24.5 (22.3); tarsus, 18-20 

 (19.'l); middle toe, 14.5-16 (15.3).^ 



.k7u/U>m«?..-Length (skins), 203-227 (213); wing, ll;>->^^-^-^ 

 (119.2)- tail, 89.5-102 (94.6); exposed culmen, 20-23 (21.6); tarsus, 

 18-21 (19.1)'; middle toe, 14-15.5 (U.S).*^ 



Lower Rio Grande Valley in Texas (Hidalgo County to Brewster 

 County) and southward through Mexican States of Tamauhpas 

 (Matamoras; Soto la Maria; Linares; Sierra Madre aboye Victoria; 

 Aldama; Tampico), Nueyo Leon (San Diego; Monterey; Rio San 

 Juan; Ceralyo; San Antonio; Estancia; Topo Chico) to highlands 

 of Vera Cruz (Orizaba; Mirador; Cordoya; Jalapa?; Papantla; Riyera) 

 and Puebla (Metlaltoyuca) . 



Tyrannus couckn Baikd, Rep. Pacxtic R. R. Surv .x, 1858 IJ^ (Nuevo Leon, 

 Mexico- coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.); ed. 1860 (Birds N. Am.), pi. 49, fig. 1 Rep. 

 U S and Mex. Bound. Surv., ii, pt. 2, 1859, 8, pi. 11, fig. 1 (San D-go, Nuevo 

 Leon); Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 128.-Sc.atkh, Ibis, 1859 439 Onzaba 

 Vera Cruz); Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 235 (Mexico) .-Dresser, Ibis, 1865, 4/2 

 (Matamoras, Tamaulipas; Brownsville, Texas). t.- u W 1874 



Tyranm^s couchi Baird, Brewer, and Ridoway, Hist. N. Am. Buds, n, 18/4, 



pi. 43, fig. 7 (Tamaulipas). 

 [Tyrannus] couchvi Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 364, no. 5552. 

 TyranmAelancholicus . . . var. coucUi Coues, Check List, 18/3 i.. 246. 

 Tyranm,smelancholicusy-^r. c-ouc/.i Baird, Brewer, and Ridgwa., Hist. In. Am. 

 Birds, ii, 1874, 329, part. «p-vkftt 



Trp-annusmelancholicus couchi Coues, Check List, 2d ed., 1882 no -^-f ^^^^J;' 

 ' Bull. U. S. Geol. and Geog. Surv. Terr., iv, 1878, ^UH^fgo, Hidalgo Co 

 Texas)- v, 1879, 401 (Lomita Ranch, Hidalgo Co., Texas); Auk, i, 1884, 93 

 ^Lo^ta Ranch! descr. nest and eggs).-Mo.TooMERY, Auk, xxii, 190o, 14 

 (Altudo, Brewster Co., Texas). 

 T[yrannns\ melancholicus couchi Coues, Key N. ^^- ^'^t^^^''^ '''' 



5th ed., i, 1903, 515.-RIDGWAY, Man. N. Am. Birds, 188/, 3^9- P^^t^ 

 Tyrannus nuLchoUcus coucJm Ridoway, Proc. L . S. Nat. Mus., -, Aug^24 1880, 

 185- Nom N.Am. Birds, 1881, no. 305.-(?)Ferhari-Perez, Proc. U.S. Nat. 

 m!;., ix 1886, 155 (Jala^raGruz)^-AHEKiCANORNXT^^ 

 "T7;:^thela.tcharacte7resembling spe";^i,;^:wT;;r^- from Yucatan, which, 

 however, are smaller and otherwise different, 

 fi Seven specimens. 

 cNine specimens. 



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