GRAY KINGBIRD 



of fresh or salt water. It usually perches on tree 

 tops and has shrill bat-like, twittering calls. 



50. Tyrannus dominicensis (Gmelin) 

 Gray Kingbird 



Length, 207 mm. (8.20 in.); tail, 88 mm. 

 (3.50 in.). 



Male. Gray above, the crown with a con- 

 cealed orange patch, wings and tail grayish 

 brown with whitish edging to wing quills but no 

 definite wing bars ; in front of eye and ear coverts 

 dusky; cheeks and under parts white tinged with 

 gray on chest and sides; under wing coverts 

 yellowish. 



Female. Similar to male but crown patch 

 smaller. 



I saw a number of these flycatchers on different 

 occasions along the Chagres River. One noted 

 at Sosa Hill on April n, 1926. 



51. Muscivora forficata (Gmelin) 

 Scissor-tailed Flycatcher 



Male. Length, 337 mm. (1340 in.); tail, 

 225 mm. (9.00 in.). Above light gray tinged 

 with pinkish, paler on head, with a small con- 

 cealed crown patch of flame color, and changing 

 to brown on rump, and to black on upper tail 

 coverts. Tail greatly elongated and deeply 

 forked, black, with the outer feathers partly 

 white tinged with pink; cheeks, chin, and throat 

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