208 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



RANGE. Southern Mexico to northern Patagonia; accidental in 

 Mississippi, Kentucky, New Jersey, Maine, arid Bermuda.] 



Muscivora forficata (GMELIN). Scissor-tailed Flycatcher. [443.] 

 Muscicapaforficata GMELIN, Syst. Nat., I, ii, 1789, 931. (Mexico.) 



RANGE. 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 LACEPEDE. 



Tyrannus LACEPEDE, Tableaux Ois., 1799, 5. Type, by tautonymy, 

 Lanius tyrannus LINNAEUS. 



Tyrannus tyrannus (LINNAEUS). Kingbird. [444.] 



Lanius tyrannus LINN.EUS, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 94. (Carolina.) 



RANGE. 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 dominicSnsis (GMELIN). Gray Kingbird. [445.] 



Lanius dominicensis GMELIN, Syst. Nat., I, i, 1788, 302. (Santo Domingo.) 



RANGE. 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 melancholicus VIEILLOT. 



RANGE. South America, Central America, and Mexico, north to 

 Lower Rio Grande Valley. 



a. [Tyrannus melancholicus melancholicus. Extralimital.] 



