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228 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Order PASSERES. Perching Birds. 



Suborder CLAMATORES. Songless Perching 



Birds. 



Family TYRANNID-ffi. Tyrant Flycatchers. 



Genus MILVULUS Swainson. 



Miknilns Swainson, Zool. Journ. HI. July, 1827, 165. Type, Tyran- 

 nus savanna Vieill. = Miiscicapa tyrannus Linn. 



[442.] Milvulus tyrannus (Linn.). 

 Fork-tailed Flycatcher. 



Mnscicapa tyrannus Linn. S. N. ed. 12, I. 1766, 325, 

 Milvulus tyrannus Bonap. Geogr. & Comp, List, 1838, 25. 



[B 122, C 240, R 302, C 366.] 



Hab. Mexico and southward throughout Central and most of South 

 America. Accidental in the United States (Mississippi, Kentucky, 

 New Jersey). 



443. Milvulus forficatus (Gmel.). 



Scissor-tailed Flycatcher. 



Muscicapa forficata Gmel. S. N. I. i. 1788, 931. 

 Milvulus forficatns Swains. Classif. B. II. 1827, 225. 



[B 123, C 241, R 301, C 367.] 



Hab. Texas and Indian Territory, casually north to Kansas and 

 Missouri ; south to Central America. Accidental in Virginia, New 

 Jersey, New England, Manitoba, and at York Factory, Hudson's Bay. 



Genus TYRANNUS Cuvier. 



Tyrannus Cuvier, Leg. d'An. Comp. I. 1799, tabl. ii. {Cf. Tabl. 

 Elem. 1797, p. 201.) Type, Lanius tyrannus Linn. 



