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is found over the entire range except the southern islands of the Lestier 

 Antilles and the island of Trinidad, which are occupied by the 

 large-billed kingbird {T. d. vorax). 



Sj)rmg migration. — Early dates of spring arrivals are: Cuba — 

 Trinidad, March 19. Bahamas — Watling Island, March 27. Flor- 

 ida — Fort Myers, March 12; New Smyrna, April 3; St. Marks, 

 April 14, 



Fall TYhigration. — Late dates of fall departure from Florida are: 

 St. Marks, September 29; St. Augustine, October 27; Koyal Palm 

 Hammock, December 28. 



Casual records. — The species has been recorded either by sight 

 or the collection of specimens from Quintana Roo (Cozumel Island), 

 Honduras (between La Ceiba and Puerto Castilla), Nicaragua 

 (Greytown), Costa Rica, and Panama (Gatun, Colon, Perme, and 

 Obaldia), but it can be considered as of only casual occurrence in 

 this region. It was recorded from Cayenne, French Guiana, on 

 October 16, 1902, and November 18, 1902. 



One was seen at Cape May Point, N. J., on May 30, 1933, and one 

 was taken at Setauket, Long Island, N. Y., about the middle of 

 July 1874. A specimen was collected at Lynn, Mass., early in Octo- 

 ber 1869, and another was taken at West Newbury on November 22, 

 1931. A remarkable record is that of one taken at Cape Beale, 

 British Columbia, on September 29, 1889. 



Egg dates. — Florida: 58 records, April 5 to July 30; 30 records, 

 May 20 to 29, indicating the height of the season. 



South Carolina : 1 record. May 30. 



West Indies : 9 records, March 23 to July 8. 



TYRANNUS MELANCHOLICUS COUCHI Baird 

 COUCH'S KINGBIRD 



HABITS 



Couch's kingbird is the name of one of the northern races of a 

 widely distributed species that ranges through Central and South 

 America. Its breeding range extends from the valley of the lower 

 Rio Grande in southern Texas southward through northeastern 

 Mexico to Veracruz and Puebla. 



It is a large, pale race of the species; in comparing it with Lich- 

 tenstein's kingbird, the more southern race, Ridgway (1907) says: 

 "Similar to the lighter colored examples of T . m. satrapa but decid- 

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

 throat more purely white, color of chest more yellowish, and 'mantle' 

 more uniformly yellowish olive-green." 



