CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 371 
445. Gray Kingbird. 
Tyrannus domimicensis (GMEL.) RICHARDSON. 1837. 
One specimen taken at Cape Beale (west coast of Vancouver 
island), September 29th, 1889, by Miss Cox, and presented to the 
museum at Victoria. (Fannin.) 
447. Arkansas Kingbird. 
Tyrannus verticalis Say. 1823. 
Two specimens of this species, an adult and one in first plumage, 
were taken by Mr. D. Losh Thorpe, at Souris coalfields, August 20th, 
1891, a little west of Manitoba. (EF. T. Seton.) Not quite so 
common as the kingbird in the timber on Skull and Maple creeks, 
Sask. (A.C. Bent.) Observed at Old Wives creek, Sask., its most 
eastern limit as far as my observation goes, on May 26th, 1895; also 
at Medicine Hat, Sask., in May, 1894 ; nesting both at Medicine Hat 
and Crane lake; quite common at Castellated Rocks, near the West 
Butte, on Milk river, in July, 1895, and westward to the Rocky 
mountains; breeding in great numbers in southern Alberta; one pair 
seen on the Columbia river, about eight miles below Deer park, 
B.C., June 18th, 1890; observed one at Meyer creek, B.C., May 11th, 
1905, common along the shores of Osoyoos lake and Similkameen 
river later in the month; first seen at Penticton, B.C., April 26th, 
1903; not rare at Trail and Cascade, B.C., in the summer of 1902; 
taken at Sicamous, Kamloops and Agassiz in 1889; one pair seen 
at Chilliwack, B.C., May 27th, 1901. (Spreadborough.) This species 
finds its northern limit in British Columbia, a few miles south of 
Clinton. It ranges east in the breeding season to the Selkirk moun- 
tains. I did not find it on the coast. (Rhoads.) Vancouver island 
and throughout British Columbia. (Lord.) Not common on the 
coast, but more abundant in the interior. (Streator.) East and 
west of Coast range, but chiefly on the mainland; found breeding 
at Ashcroft. (Fannin.) Summer resident; tolerably common at 
Chilliwack. (Brooks.) 
BREEDING Notes.—In the Red river region T. carolinensis Alone 
represents the genus; but throughout the Upper Missouri and Milk 
river tountry the two are found together, and it is hard to say which 
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