ORDEE PASSEEES. 209 



b. Tyrannus melancholicus couchi Baird. Couch's ELinebiid. [446.] 



Tyrannus couchii Baird, Rep. Expl. & Surv. R. R. Pac, IX, 1858, 175. 

 (Nuevo Leon, Mexico.) 



Range. — Valley of Lower Rio Grande, Texas, south in northeastern 

 Mexico to Vera Cruz and Puebla; winters in Mexico. 



Tyrannus verticalis Say. Arkansas Kingbird. [447.] 



Tyrannus verticalis Say, in Long's Exped., II, 1823, 60 (note). (Near 

 La Junta, Colorado.) 



Range. — Western North America. Breeds mainly in Sonoran 

 zones, from southern British Columbia, southern Alberta, and southern 

 Saskatchewan south to northern Lower California and Chihuahua, 

 east to western Minnesota, western Iowa, central Kansas, and western 

 Texas; winters from western Mexico to Guatemala; casual in Mani- 

 toba; accidental in Missouri, Wisconsin, Maine, New York, New 

 Jersey, and Maryland. 



Tyrannus vociferans Swainson. Cassin's Kingbird. [448.] 



Tyrannies vociferans Swainson, Quart. Joum. Sci., XX, 1826, 273. 

 (Temascaltepec, Mexico.) 



Range. — Western North America. Breeds in Upper and Lower 

 Sonoran zones from central California and southern Wyoming south 

 to Michoacan and Jalisco, Mexico, and east to eastern Colorado, New 

 Mexico, and western Texas; winters from southern California and 

 northern Mexico to Guatemala; casual in Oregon and northern 

 California. 



Genus PITANGUS Swainson. 



Pitangus Swainson, Zool. Journ., Ill, 1827, 165. Type, by orig. desig., 

 Tyrannus sulphuratus Vieillot = Lanius sulphuratus Lxnn.«ius. 



Pitangus sulphuratus (Linn^us). 



Range. — Lower Rio Grande Valley, Mexico, Central and South 

 America to Bolivia and Argentina. 



