Birds and Birding's Guide to:
Watching THE SPARROW-LIKE BIRDS
THE FREE-TOED PERCHING BIRDS
THE TYRANT-BIRDS
Other Kingbirds
The Gray Kingbird (T. dominicensis) of the South Atlantic States and Greater Antilles may be known by the ash-gray upper parts, absence of a white band on the tip of the tail, larger size, very much larger bill, forked instead of rounded tail, as well as by its very different notes; its habits are similar to those of the Kingbird. In the western United States and extending into Mexico and Central America is a group of species in which the lower parts are yellow and the throat and chest grayish or whitish. Among these the Arkansas or Western Kingbird (T. verticalis) is a common summer visitor to most of the western United States, being especially abundant in the Great Basin region, while Cassin's Kingbird (T. vociferans) is more partial to the coast districts.