208 CHECK-LIST OF NOKTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Range. — Southern Mexico to northern Patagonia; accidental in 

 Mississippi, Kentucky, New Jersey, Maine, and Bermuda.] 



Muscivora forfic^ta (Gmelin). Scissor-tailed Flycatcher. [443.] 

 Muscicapaforficata Gmbmn, Syst. Nat., I, ii, 1789, 931. (Mexico.) 



Range. — Breeds from southern Kansas to southern Texas, casually 

 to southwestern Missouri, western Arkansas, and western Louisiana; 

 winters from southern Mexico to Panama; accidental locally from 

 Colorado, Keewatin, and New Brunswick south to Florida. 



Genus TYRANNUS Lac£pI:de. 



Tyrannus LAciipfcDB, Tableaiix Ois., 1799, 5. Type, by tautonymy, 

 Lanius tyrannus Linn^tjs. 



TyrSnnus tyrannus (Linnaeus). Kingbird. [444.] 



Lanius tyrannus Linn^us, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 94. (Carolina.) 



Range. — North and South America. Breeds from southern 

 British Columbia, southern Mackenzie, southern Keewatin, northern 

 Ontario, central Quebec, and Newfoundland south to central Oregon, 

 northern New Mexico, central Texas, and central Florida; winters 

 from southern Mexico to Colombia, British Guiana, Peru, and Bolivia; 

 casual in Cuba in migration; accidental in Greenland. 



Tyrannus doniinic6nsis (Gmelin). Gray Kingbird. [445.] 



Lanius dominicensis Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, i, 1788, 302. (Santo Domingo.) 



Range. — Breeds from Georgia, southeastern South Carolina, 

 Florida, and Yucatan through the Bahamas and West Indies to 

 northern South America; winters from Jamaica and Haiti southward. 



Tyrannns melancholicus Vieillot. 



Range. — South America, Central America, and Mexico, north to 

 Lower Rio Grande Valley. 



a. [Tyrannus melancholicus melancholicus. Extralimital.] 



