234 BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 



504. Tyrannus tyrannus. 



C'OMMON King-bird. 



Laniiis fyrannvs Linn. Sjst. Nat. i. p. 94, 1758 (Carolina). 

 Tyrannus tyrannus Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 304, no. 3100, 

 1912. 



Adidt female. Head and sides o£ face black with a slaty-grey 

 tinge ; a concealed bright orange-red patch on the middle of the 

 crown ; hind-neck, sides of neck, back, lesser upper wing-coverts, 

 and scapulars dark slate-colour ; median and greater upper wing- 

 coverts, bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and flight-quills dark 

 brown with pale edges to many of the feathers ; upper tail- 

 coverts black, narrowly fringed with white ; tail-feathers also 

 black, rather broadly tipped with white ; throat, abdomen, and 

 under tail-coverts white ; breast pale ash-grey ; axillaries and 

 under wing-coverts pale brown ; under surface of quills similar 

 but paler ; lower as])ect of tail dark brown tipped with wliite. 



Total length 187 mm., exposed cidmeii 16, wing 116, tail 83, 

 tarsus 21. 



The female described above was collected on the Abary River 

 in November 1906, 



Adult male. Similar to the adult female, but the coronal patch 

 more extensive, and slightly larger in measurements. Wing 

 122 mm. 



Breeding-season. Unknown in British Guiana. 



Kest. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



J^ggs. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



Range in Britisli Guiana. Abary River {MeConnell collection). 



Extralhnital Range. Peru, Ecuador, Colombia. North through 

 Central Ainerica and t!ie United States to Canada. 



505. Tyrannus satrapa. 

 Lesser Yellow-breasted King-bird. 



Tyrannns mplancholicus (nee YieilL) Cab. in Schomb. lieis. Guian. iii. 

 p. 7U0, lb4.S; Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 299 (Rcjraima, Merume Mts., 

 Camacusa, Bartina Grrove) ; W. L. Selater, Ibis, 1887, p. 318 (Mac- 

 cassema) ; P. L. Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xiv. p. 273, 1888 (Roraiina, 

 Camacusa, Bartiea Grove) ; Lloyd- Price, Timehri, (2) v. p. Gl, 

 1891 (nest and eggs) ; Quelch, torn. cit. p. 90, 1891 (Georgetown) ; 

 Beebe, Our Search for a Wilderness, pp. 137, 392, 1910 (Barinia 

 River). 



Laphyctes satrapa Cab. et Hoin. Mus. Hein. ii. p. 77, 1859 (Caracas). 



