TYRANNID^ — THE TYR.VNT FLYCATCHERS — TYRANNUS. ^H 

 Tyrannus Carolinensis, Baird. 



THE KING-BIED; BEE-MARTIN. 



Lam'us fi/rannus, Linnjeus, Syst. Nat. 1. 176G, 136. (This belongs to the Cuban T. maltitt- 



nus, according to Bonaparte.) — Musciaiju li/raniius, (Brisson ?) Wilson, Am. Orii. I. 



1808, 66; pi. xiii. —Audubon, Orn. Biog. I. 1832, 403; V. 1839, 420; pi. 79. lis. 



Birds Amcr. I. 1840, 204; pi. 56. — Luiiius fi/raiinus, var. CaroUnensis, Litdvvicianiis, 



G.iiiiLiN, Syst. Nat. I. 1788, 302. 

 Mtiscicapa rex, B.vrton, Fragments, N. 11. Penna. 1799, 18. 

 Ti/ranniis Cnrolinensis, B.\iRD, P. 1?. Rep. IX. Birds, 171. — Cooper and Sucklet, XII. iii. 



Zool. ofW. T. 167. — Lord, Pr. II. A. Inst. Woolwich, 1804, 113. British Columbia. 



Sr. CiiAR. Two, sometimes tliree, outer primaries abruptly attenuated at the end. 

 Si'cond (juill lonf^est ; third little shorter ; first rather longer than fourth, or nearly equal. 

 Tail slightl)' rounded. Above dark bluish-ash, the top and sides of the head to beneath 

 the eyes bluish-black. A concealed orcst on the crown, vermilion in the centre, white 

 behind, ami before partially mi.xed with orange. Lower parts jiure white, tinged with 

 pale bluish-ash on the sides of the throat and across the breast ; sides of the breast and 



under the wings similar to, but rather lighter than, the back. Axillaries pale grayish- 

 brown tipped with lighter. The wings dark brown, darkest towards the ends of tlie 

 quills ; the greater coverts and quills edged with white, most so on the tertials ; the lesser 

 coverts edged with paler. Upper tail coverts and upper surface of the tail glossy black, 

 the latter very dark brown beneath ; all the feathers tipped and the exterior margined 

 externally with white, forming a conspicuous terminal band about 0.2.5 of an inch broad. 

 Length, 8.7.5; extent, 1.5.00; wing, 4.65; tail, 3.70 ; tarsus, 0.75. Iris brown ; bill and 

 feet black. 



Huh. Eastern North America to Rocky Mountains. West of this seen only in Wash- 

 ington Territory. California V South to Panama and the Upper Amazon, in winter. 



Altliough tlii.s Ijird lias never vet been collected in California, it is almost 

 impossible that one of its migratory habits should be abundant at the 



