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limb of a pine. Bond describes a nest containing three eggs found 

 in a mangrove swamp near Caracol, May 26, 1928. 



Abbott describes the bill and feet in this species as black and the 

 iris as dark brown. 



The gray kingbird, 225 to 235 mm. long, is dark gray above, with 

 blackish wings and tail, the former edged with whitish, a blackish 

 band through the eye, white underparts with a wash of gray on the 

 breast, light yellow under wing coverts, and a concealed patch of 

 orange and yellow on the crown. 



TOLMARCHUS GABBII (Lawrence) 

 HISPANIOIAN PETCHARY, MANJUILA, PIPIRIT, TETE POLICE 



Pitangus Gabbii Lawrence, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. New York, vol. 11, 1876, p. 

 288 (Hato Viejo, Mao River, Province of Santiago, Dominican Republic). — 

 Coby, Bull. Nuttall Ornith. Club, 1881, p. 153 (Haiti) ; Birds Haiti and San 

 Domingo, July, 1884, pp. 76-77, col. fig. (Magua, Petionville, specimens) ; Cat. 

 West Indian Birds, 1882, p. 108 (Haiti, Dominican Republic) ; Auk, 1895, p. 

 279 (Dominican Republic). — Tippenhatjer, Die Insel Haiti, 1892, p. 321 

 (listed). — Cherbde, Field Columbian Mus., Ornith. ser., vol. 1, 1896, p. 17 (Hon- 

 duras, specimen). — Verrill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1909, p. 361 

 (Miranda). 



Tyrannus (part), Brisson, Ornith., vol. 2, 1760, pp. 391-392 (" S. Domingue "). 



Tyr annus intrepidus ?, Salle, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1857, p. 232 (listed). — 

 Bryant, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 11, May, 1S67, p. 90 (considered error 

 for Tolmarchus) . 



Tyrannus tyrannus, Cory, Birds West Indies 1889, p. 132 (listed) ; Cat. West 

 Indian Birds, 1892, p. 108 (Dominican Republic). — Ridgway, U. S. Nat. Mus. 

 Bull. 50, vol. 4, 1907, p. 691 ("Haiti"). 



IHuscicapa cayenensis, Ritter, Naturh. Reis. Westind. Insel Hayti, 1836, p. 

 156 (specimen). 



"iMuscicapa flava, Vieillot, Hist. Nat. «Ois. Amer. Sept., vol. 1, 1807, p. 69 

 (" Saint-Domingue"). 



Tolmarchus gabbi, Ridgway, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 18, Sept. 2, 

 1905, p. 209 (listed).— Peters, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 61, 1917, p. 415 

 (Monte Cristi, Bulla, specimens). — Kaempfer, Journ. fur Ornith., 1924, p. 180 

 (Tilbano). 



Tolmarchus gabbii, Ridgway, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 50, pt. 4, 1907, pp. 683-684, 

 (description, range). — Beebe, Zool. Soc. Bull., vol. 30, 1927, p. 141 (living speci- 

 men in Zoological Park). — Danforth, Auk, 1929, p. 370 (local). — Lonnberg, 

 Fauna och Flora, 1929, p. 105 (Haiti). — Moltoni, Att. Soc. Ital. Scienz. Nat., 

 vol. 68, 1929, p. 319 (San Juan, specimen). 



Tolmarchus caudifasciatus gabbii, Hellmayr, Cat. Birds Amer., Field Mus. 

 Nat. Hist., Zool. ser., vol. 13, April 11, 1927, p. 158 (Port-au-Prince, Petionville. 

 Magua, Honduras, specimens). — Bond, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 

 80, 1928, p. 506 (La Selle, Morne Malanga). 



Resident; local in occurrence. 



The petchary though widely distributed is less common than the 

 gray kingbird whose place it takes in areas of forest. It is found 

 almost entirely amid heavy growths of trees, finding in coffee planta- 



