706 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM, 



Check List, 1886, no. 446, part.— Ben dire, Life Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1895, 



243, pL 2, figs. 5, 6 (eggs).— Bailey (Florence M.), Handl>. Birds W. U. S., 



1902, 248. 

 Tyrannus melancholicus (not of Vieillot) Sclater, Proc. ZooL Soc. Lond., 1859, 



439, part (Cordova, Orizaba, and Jalapa, Vera Cruz); 1870, 439 (Cordova; 



Jalapa); Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xiv, 1888, 273, part (in synonymy). — Salvin 



and GoDMAN, BioL Ccntr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1889, 101, part ("Arizona''; Texas; 



San Diego, Ceralvo, San Antonio, Estancia, and Topo Chico, near Monterey, 



Nuevo Leon; Sierra Madre above Ciudad Victoria, Soto la Maria, Aldama, 



and Tampico, Tamaulipas). 

 [Tyrannus] ■melancholicus Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 53, part. 

 {'^)Tyrannus satrapa (not of Cabanis and Heine?) Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 



235, part (Orizaba). 



TYRANNUS DOMINICENSIS DOMINICENSIS (Gmelin). 

 GRAY KINGBIRD. 



Adult male. — Above plain gray (about no. 6, inclining to smoke 

 gray), the feathers of pileum with indistinct shaft-streaks of darker, 

 the crown with a large concealed patch of orange or orange-red 

 (orpiment orange to orange-chrome), underlaid laterally and pos- 

 teriorly with white; upper tail-coverts deep grayish brown margined 

 with gray or rusty brownish; tail dusky grayish brown, the rectrices 

 margined terminally with pale brownish gray or dull whitish, their 

 outer webs indistinctly edged with gray, the outermost narrowly 

 edged with whitish; wings deep grayish brown, the lesser and middle 

 coverts broadly margined with light gray, the greater coverts and 

 secondaries etlged with very pale gray or grayish white (the edgings 

 broader and wliiter on inner secondaries), the primary coverts and 

 primaries dusky grayish brown, very narrowly edged with pale gray ; 

 loral region dusky intermixed with gray; auricular region dusky 

 or dull blackish, with a few very narrow shaft-streaks of pale grayish; 

 malar region and under parts white, the median portion of chest 

 faintly shaded with pale gray passing into deeper gray (about no. 8 

 or no. 9) on sides of chest, sides, and flanks, the under tail-coverts 

 usually tinged with pale yellow; axillars and under wing-coverts 

 yellowish white or pale primrose yellow; inner webs of remiges 

 edged with dull yellowish white; bill black; iris brown; legs and feet 

 brownish black ; ^length (skins), 202-229 (207) ; wing, 111-122 (116.2) ; 

 tail, 82-100 (90.3); exposed culmen, 24.5-28 (26.1); tarsus, 17.5-19.5 

 (18.5); middle toe, 13.5-15 (14.3).« 



Adult female. — Similar to the male and not always distinguishable 

 as to coloration, but tips of longer primaries less distinctly attenuated, 

 and orange crown-patch usually smaller; length (skins), 198-215 



" Thirty-six specimens. 



