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The single North American species of this genus is readily distinguished 

 among other Flycatchers by tlie bright red of tlie under parts. The female 

 is ij^uite different in ccjlor from the male, being peculiar in this respect among 

 North American Flycatchers. 



Species and Varieties. 



E. obscurus.' Entirely uuilbna sepia-bruwn beneath, with a wine-purple 

 tinge pcisterioily and on the forehead. Hah. Peru. 



E. rubineus. Whole crown, and entire lower parts (except lining of wing), 

 brilliant .-;carlet-red ; a stripe on side of the head, and entire upper parts, 

 sepia-brownish. Female. Whitish anteriorly beneath, more or less reddish 

 posteriorly ; anterior portion with dusky streaks ; crown dusky. Young 

 ■without any red; feathers above bordered with lighter; streaks beneath 

 numerous. Length, about 5.50. 



The brown of a dark sepia cast, edges of wing-feathers not appreciably 

 paler, the red with a slight carmine shade. jSTo whitish on the edge of 

 outer nor on tips of other tail-feathers. Hnh. South America var. r it ii» e^i.'J.- 

 Similar to last, but outer web of lateral tail-feather distinctly whitish, 

 the rest tipped slightly witli •whitish. Hah. Northern South America 



(Bogota aud Guayaquil) var. nanus? 



The brown of a decided grayish cast, and edges of wing-feathers very 

 distinctly paler ; red more scarlet (but equally intense). No whitish 

 tips to tail-feathers, and no white edge to the outer. Hab. Middle 

 America; north into southern border of United States . var. mexicanus. 



Pyrocephalus rubineus, \m\ mexicanus, Sclater. / ^ &J ■ 



BED FLYCATCHER. 



Pyroccphahis rubineus, Lawuenck, Ami. N. Y. Lye. V, May, 1851, 115. Cassin, 111. I, 

 IV, 1853, 127, pi. xvii. — Baikd, Birds N. Am. 1858, 201. — Salvadoki, Atti. Milan. 

 vii, 1864. — Heekm. X, H, 38. Tyrannula coronaia, Swainson, "WAGLEr, Isis, 1831, 

 529. Pijroccplialus nanus, Woodhouse, Sitgreave's Eeport, 1853, 75 (not of Gould). 

 Pyroccpluihis mexicanus, Sclatek, P. Z. S. 1859, 45, 56, 366 ; 1864, 176. — Ib. Ibis, 

 1859, 442. — Ib. Catal. 227. — Sclater & Salvi.n', Ibis, 1860, 399 (Guatemala). — 

 Cabanis, Mus. Heiii. ii, 1S59, 68. — Coopeu, Orn. Cal. I, 1870, 333. 



Sp. Char. Head with a full rounded or globular crest. Tail even. Crown and whole 

 under parts bright carmine-red; rest of upper parts, including the cheeks as far as the 

 bill, and the lining of the wing, dull grayish-brown; the upper tail-coverts darker; the 

 tail almost black; greater and middle wing-coverts and edges of secondaries and tertials 



1 Pyrocephalus obscumis, GotJLD, Zocil. Voy. Beag. iii, 45. — Sclater, P. Z. S. 1859, 46; 

 Catal. Am. B. 1862, 228 (Peru). 



- Pyroccphahis rubineus, (BoDD. ) C.VB. Muscicapa rubinea, Bonn, (e.x Buff. pi. enl. cclxv, 

 f. 1). Pyroccjilialus r. Cabanis et Heix. Mus. Heiii. ii, p. 67. — .Sclater, Catal. Am. B. 1862, 

 227. 



^ Pyroci-phaliLs rubineus, var. nanus, Gould, Zool. Beag. iii, 45, pi. vii, — Sclater, P. Z. S. 

 1859, 46, 144 ; 1860, 282, 295 ; Catal. Am. B. 1862, p. 228. The last is hardly .separable by 

 the characters given, as, although they are never .seen in southern specimens, they are not con- 

 stant in the northern ones. Specimens of 7)a7ius are as large as any of rubitien.i, there being in 

 every region a great range of variation in dimensions. 



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