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Order PASSERIFORMES 



Suborder Tyranni 

 Superfamily TYRANNIDES 



Family TYRANNIDAE 20 



TYRANNUS DOMINICENSIS DOMINICENSIS (Gmelin) 

 GRAY KINGBIRD, PETIGRE, PITIRRE, TITIRI, PXPIRITE 



Lanius dominicensis Gmelin, Syst. Nat., 17SS, vol. 1, pt. 1, p. 302 (Hispaniola). 



Titire, ou Pipiri, Buffon, Hist. Nat. Oi«., vol. 4, 1778. pp. 573-577 (habits). 



Tyrannus intrepidus, Ritter, Natarh. lieis. Westind. Insel Hayti, 1836, p. 

 156 (specimen). 



Tyrannus matutmus, Salle, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1857, p. 232 (Dominican 

 Republic). 



Tyrannus griseus, Vieillot, Hist. Nat. Ois. Anier. Sept., vol. 1, 1807, pp. 76-77, 

 pi. 46 (habits, description). — Bryant, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 11, 

 May, 1S67, p. 90 (Dominican Republic, Haiti).— Cory, Bull. Nuttall Ornith. 

 Club, 1881, p. 153 (Haiti). 



Tyrannus Dominicensis Brisson, Ornith., vol. 2, 1760, pp. 394-395, pi. 38, 

 fig. 2 ("S. Domingue"). 



Tyrannus dominicensis, Cory, Bull. Nuttall Ornith. Club, 1881, p. 153 (Haiti, 

 specimens) ; Birds Haiti and San Domingo, July, 1884, pp. 77-79 (Puerto Plata, 

 specimens; Samana, eggs); Cat. West Indian Birds, 1892, p. 108 (Haiti, 

 Dominican Republic). — Tristram, Ibis, 1884, p. 168 (Dominican Republic, 

 specimen) ; Cat. Coll. Birds belonging H. B. Tristram, 1889, p. 124 (Rivas, 

 specimen). — Tippenhauer, Die Insel Haiti, 1892, pp. 320, 321 (listed). — 

 Cheerie, Field Columbian Mus., Ornith. ser., vol. 1, 1S96, p. 18 (Dominican 

 Republic, specimens). — Christy, Ibis, 1897, pp. 327-32S (Dominican Republic, 

 nesting). — Verrill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1909, p. 361 (Dominican 

 Republic). — Kaempfer, Journ. fur Ornith., 1924, p. ISO (Dominican Republic). — 

 Lonnberg, Fauna och Flora, 1929, p. 105 (Haiti). 



Tyrannus d. dominicensis, Beebe, Zool. Soc. Bull., vol. 30, 1927, p. 140 ; Be- 

 neath Tropic Seas, 1928, pp. 67, 222 (Haiti).— Ekm an, Ark. for Bot., vol. 22 A, 

 No. 16, 1929, p. 7 (Navassa). 



Tyrannus dominicensis dominicensis, Peters, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 61, 

 1917, pp. 414-415 (Monte Christi, Sosiia, specimens). — Bond, Proc. Acad. Nat. 

 Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 80, 1928, p. 506 (Caracol, nest).— Danforth, Auk, 1929, 

 p. 370 (common). 



Tyrannus curvirostris curvirostris, Moltoni, Att. Soc. Ital. Scienz. Nat., 

 vol. 6S, 1929, p. 319 (Moca, specimens). 



20 Salvadori in Atti Soc. Ital. Sci. Nat., vol. 7, 1864, p. 153, described a small fly- 

 catcher under the name Anaeretes cristatellns that he says " e indicato come proveniente 

 da Haiti." Sclater and Salvin after examining his type specimen report in the Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. London, 1868, p. 175 (footnote) that this is Serpopliaya suberistata (Vieillot), 

 which ranges in South America from Pernamhuco and Piauhy south into Argentina as 

 far as the Rio Negro, and does not occur in the Greater Antilles. Salvadori's locality is 

 therefore erroneous. 



