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Range (Breeds from the coast of South)

Breeds from the coast of South Carolina southward through Florida and the Greater Antilles; winters in the Lesser Antilles, Mexico, and Central America; accidental in Massachusetts.

Nest, of grass and weeds, lined with fine grass and rootlets, in bushes. Eggs, four, deep salmon, irregularly spotted and blotched with umber and lilac, 1.00 × 75 (Maynard).

The Gray Kingbird is a common summer resident of parts of our South Atlantic States, arriving early in May. It resembles the Kingbird in appearance, but lacks the white band at the end of the tail, and has quite different notes. Its usual call is a vigorous pitìrri, pitirri, which in Cuba gives it its common name.

The ARKANSAS KINGBIRD (447. Tyrannus verticalis), a western species, has been taken in Iowa, District of Columbia, Maine, New Jersey, and New York. 452. Myiarchus crinitus (Linn.). CRESTED FLYCATCHER; GREAT