234 BIEDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 



504. Tyrannus tyrannus. 



CIoMMON King-bird. 



Lanius tyrannus Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 94, 1758 (Carolina). • 



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

 1912.' 



Adult 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 aspect of tail dark brown tipped with white. 



Total length 187 mm., exposed culmen 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 slightl/ larger in measurements. Wing 

 122 mm. 



Breeding-season. Unknown in British Guiana. 



Mest. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Eggs. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



Range in British Guiana. Abary River {McConnell collection). 



Extralimital Range. Peru, Ecuador, Colombia. North through 

 Central America and tlie United States to Canada. 



505. Tyrannus satrapa. 

 Lesser Ybllow-beeastkd King-bird. 



Tyrannus melancholicus (nee Vieill.) Cab. in Sohomb. Eeis. Guian. iii. 

 p. 700, 1848; Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 299 (Eoraima, Merume.Mts., 

 Camacusa, Bartica Grove) ; W. L. Sclater, Ibis, 1887, p. 318 (Mac- 

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

 Camacusa, Bartica Grove) ; Lloyd- Price, 'i^imehri, (2) v. p. 61, 

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

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

 Eiver). 



LapJiyctes satrapa Cab. et Hein. Mus. Heiu. ii. p. 77, 1859 (Caracas). 



