14 TYRANNIDiE : FLYCATCHERS. 



of the appearance of this western bird beyond its usual 

 range is cited by Prof. Baird in the Smithsonian Report 

 for 1874, p. 32, where notice is given of a specimen taken 

 in Maryland, near Washington, D. C, and found in 

 market in that city, Sept. 30, 1874, by Mr. P. L. Jouy. 

 These are all the cases of the kind which have come to 

 our notice. 



GRAY KING-BIRD. 



TYRANNUS DOMINICENSIS {GlH.) Rick. 



Chars. Similar to T. carolinensis. Larger ; length, about 9.00 ; 

 extent, 16.00 ; wing, 5.50 ; tail, nearly 5.00, emarginate ; bill an 

 inch long, very stout and turgid. Five or six primaries usually 

 emarginate. Upper parts grayish-plumbeous, rather darker on 

 the head, the auriculars dusky. Under parts white, shaded with 

 ashy on the breast and sides, the under wing-coverts faintly yel- 

 lowish. Wings and tail dusky, edged with whitish or yellowish, 

 the tail-feathers merely indistinctly lighter at their tips, not 

 broadly tipped with white. 



The proper habitat of the Gray King-bird is the West 

 Indies and Florida, whence it occasionally strays north- 

 ward. It has once occurred in New England, having 

 been taken at Lynn, Mass., Oct. 23, 1869, by Mr. Charles 

 Goodale, as recorded by Allen, Am. Nat., iii, 1870, p. 645 ; 

 Maynard, Nat. Guide, 1870, p. 124; Brewer, Pr. Bost. 

 Soc. Nat. Hist, xvii, 1875, p. 144; Allen, Bull. Essex 

 Inst., X, 1878, p. 19; Minot, B. N. E., 1877, p. 273, — all 

 these records referring to the same instance. The bird 

 is said to have also occurred on Long Island (Forest and 

 Stream, July 23, 1874, p. 373). 



