208 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 
RanGE.— Southern Mexico to northern Patagonia; accidental in 
Mississippi, Kentucky, New Jersey, Maine, and Bermuda.] 
Muscivora forficdta (GMELIN). Scissor-tailed Flycatcher. [443.] 
Muscicapa forficata GMELIN, Syst. Nat., I, ii, 1789, 931. (Mexico.) 
RanGeE.— Breeds from southern Kansas to southern Texas, casually 
to southwestern Missouri, western Arkansas, and western Louisiana; 
winters from southern Mexico to Panama; accidental locally from 
Colorado, Keewatin, and New Brunswick south to Florida. 
GENUS TYRANNUS Lack&rEpDe. 
Tyrannus Lactrkpg, Tableaux Ois., 1799, 5. Type, by tautonymy, 
Lanius tyrannus LInN»Us. 
Tyrannus tyrannus (LINN«us). Kingbird. [444.] 
Lanius tyrannus Linnzxus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 94. (Carolina.) 
RanceE.— North and South America. Breeds from southern 
British Columbia, southern Mackenzie, southern Keewatin, northern 
Ontario, central Quebec, and Newfoundland south to central Oregon, 
northern New Mexico, central Texas, and central Florida; winters 
from southern Mexico to Colombia, British Guiana, Peru, and Bolivia; 
casual in Cuba in migration; accidental in Greenland. 
Tyrannus dominicénsis (GMELIN). Gray Kingbird. [445.] 
Lanius dominicensis GMELIN, Syst. Nat., I, i, 1788, 302. (Santo Domingo.) 
RancEe.— Breeds from Georgia, southeastern South Carolina, 
Florida, and Yucatan through the Bahamas and West Indies to 
northern South America; winters from Jamaica and Haiti southward. 
Tyrannus melanchélicus VIEILLOT. 
RanGE.— South America, Central America, and Mexico, north to 
Lower Rio Grande Valley. 
a. [Tyrannus melancholicus melancholicus. Extralimital.] 
