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445. Gray Kingbird. 



Tyi annus dominiccnsis (Gmel.) Richardson. 1837. 



One specimen taken at Cape Beale (west coast of Vancouver 

 island), September 29th, 1889, by Miss Cox, and presented to the 

 museum at Victoria. {Fannin.) 



447. Arkansas Kingbird. 



Tyrannus verticalis Say. 1823. 



Two specimens of this species, an adult and one in first plumage, 

 were taken by Mr. D. Losh Thorpe, at Souris coalfields, August 20th, 

 1 89 1, a little west of Manitoba. (£. T. Seton.) Not quite so 

 common as the kingbird in the timber on Skull and Maple creeks, 

 Sask. {A. C. Bent.) Observed at Old Wives creek, Sask., its most 

 eastern limit as far as my observation goes, on May 26th, 1895; also 

 at Medicine Hat, Sask., in May, 1894 ; nesting both at Medicine Hat 

 and Crane lake; quite common at Castellated Rocks, near the West 

 Butte, on Milk river, in July, 1895, and westward to the Rocky 

 mountains ; breeding in great numbers in southern Alberta ; one pair 

 seen on the Columbia river, about: eight miles below Deer park, 

 B.C., June i8th, 1890; observed one at Meyer creek, B.C., May nth, 

 1905, common along the shores of Osoyoos lake and Similkameen 

 river later in the month; first seen at Penticton, B.C., April 26th, 

 1903; not rare at Trail and Cascade, B.C., in the summer of 1902; 

 taken at Sicamous, Kamloops and Agassiz in 1889; one pair seen 

 at Chilliwack, B.C., May 27th, 1901. {S preadho rough.) This species 

 finds its northern limit in British Columbia, a few miles south of 

 Clinton. It ranges east in the breeding season to the Selkirk moun- 

 tains. I did not find it on the coast. (Rhoads.) Vancouver island 

 and throughout British Columbia. (Lord.) Not common on the 

 coast, but more abundant in the interior. (Streator.) East and 

 west of Coast range, but chiefly on the mainland; found breeding 

 at Ashcroft. (Fannin.) Summer resident; tolerably common at 

 Chilliwack. (Brooks.) 



Breeding Notes. — In the Red river region T. carolinensis Alone 

 represents the genus; but throughout the Upper Missouri and Milk 

 river country the two are found together, and it is hard to say which 

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