1*78 Bangs, iVew Birds from Easterti North America. FApril 



1874,1 and it is the greatest wonder they have never been recog- 

 nized by name till now. 



Tyrannus tyrannus vexator, subsp. nov. Florida King- 

 bird. 



Type from Merrit's Island, Indian River, Florida, ? ^d.. No. 17S0, 

 Coll. of G. S. Miller, Jr., collected May 13,1886, by C. J. Maynard. 



Siibspecijic characters. Size of T. tyrannus tyra?ifucs, bill very much 

 broader; tarsus slightly shorter and stouter ; color of back usually darker 

 and not so gray. In T. tyr. tyra?miis the top of head is black and back is 

 dark gray. In T. tyr. vexator the whole back is but little lighter in color 

 than the head, and there never is the marked contrast in the colors of 

 head and back seen in T. tyr. tyratttms. 



Remarks. — The name of the eastern Kingbird is considered 

 to date from Linnseus's Xth Edition. Linnaeus, however, based 

 his bird principally upon " The Tyrant " of Catesby. Catesby, 

 while he may have included the eastern Kingbird in his account 

 of " The Tyrant," figured under that name another sp"ecies. 



The first author who gave the eastern Kingbird unconfused 

 with other species is, as far as I can assertain. Pennant, where in 

 his ' Arctic Zoology,' on page 384, the " Place " is given as in 

 New York and the date of arrival is said to be April. Pennant 

 mentions the white-tipped tail and his description is clear and 

 free from confusion with any other species. 



' American Naturalist, Vol. VIII, p. 88, 1S74. 



2 Coll. of E. A. and O. Bangs. 



3 Coll. of Gerrit S. Miller, Jr. 



