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387. Empidonax minimus Bd. B 142. c 258. R 326. 



Least Flycatcher. 



388. Empidonax flaviventris Bd. B 144. c 259. R 322. 



Yellow-bellied Flycatcher. 



389. Empidonax flaviventris dimcilis Bd. B i44a. c . R 323. (?) 



Western Yellow-bellied Flycatcher. 



390. Empidonax hammondi (Xant.) Bd. B 145. c 200. R 327. 



Hammond's Flycatcher. 



391. Empidonax obscurus (Sw.) Bd. B 146. c 261. R 328. 



Wright's Flycatcher. 



392. Mitrephoms fulvifrons pallescens Coues. B . c 202. R 329<z. 



Buff-breasted Flycatcher. 



393. Ornithium imberbe Scl. B . c . R 331. 



Beardless Flycatcher. 



394. Pyrocephalus rubineus mexicanus (Scl.) Coues. B 147. c 263. R sso. 



Mexican Vermilion Flycatcher. 



395. Nyctidromus albicollis (Gm.) Burm. B . c . R 356. 



Pauraque. 



387. E. mln'-I-mus. Lat. minimus, least, smallest, superlative degree of parvus, little. 



388. E. fla-vi-ven'-tris. Lat. flaous, yellow; ventris, pertaining to the belly, venter, belly; prob- 



ably digammated from Gr. fi>r(poi>, the entrails. 



389. E. f. dif-fi'-cl-lls. Lat. difficilis, difficult, not facile ; dis-facilis, not easily do-able ; facto, I 



do; like agilis, active, or utilis, useful, from arjo and utor. It is applied to the bird 

 as the French would call a person difficile, that is, hard to get at, manage, understand, 

 impracticable; the subspecies not being readily distinguished from E.flaviventris, 



390. E. ham'-m6nd-i. To Dr. W. A. Hammond, sometime Surgeon General, U. S. Army. 



391. E. 5b-scu'-rus. See Molo/hrus, No. 314. To C. Wright, the discoverer. Swainson's bird 



is very uncertain, and our species might be called E. wrighti. 



392. Mi-tre'-ph6r-us ful'-vi-frons pal-les'-cens. Gr. p-'iTpa. or /un-prj, a mitre or other head- 



dress, and <pop6s, bearing, from <j>ep<a, same as Lat. fero, I bear. We believe either 

 mitrephorus or mitrophorus to be admissible; the former has currency, though the latter 

 maybe preferable. Lat. fu/vus, yellowish, fulvous, and frons, forehead. Lat. palles- 

 cens, somewhat pale, from pallesco, I grow pale ; palleo, of same meaning. The allusion 

 is to the pale coloration in comparison with the stock-form /<//n/ws. [See Index, p. 137.] 



393. 6r-nlth'-i-um im-ber'-be". Gr. opviQtov, a little bird ; diminutive of Spvis, a bird. Lat. 



imberbe, beardless, from in, negation, and barbn, beard. The genus is commonly written 

 Ornithion, but it is customary to change -ov of the Greek into -urn in Latin. 



Not in the orig. ed. ; since discovered in Texas by G. B. Sennett. See Coues, The 

 Country, i, p. 184, July 13, 1878. 



394. Py-r5-cgph'-a-lus rub-Tn'-g-us mex-I-ca'-nus. Gr. irCp, genitive irvpiis, fire, /ce^aA??, 



head. Lat. rubineus (not classic), equivalent to rubens, ruby-colored, rose-reel. 



395. Nyc-tl'-dr6-mus al-bl-col'-lls. Gr. vv, genitive VVKT<!S, night, and Spd/i/os. act of running: 



in allusion to the nocturnal activity of the bird. See Ammodramus, No. 238. Lat. albus, 

 white, and collis, neck. 



Not in the orig. ed. ; since discovered in Texas by G. B. Sennett, and J. C. Merrill. 



