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Empidonax cineritius Brewster, Auk, v, Jan., 1888, 90 (La Laguna, Ix)wer Cali- 

 fornia; coll. W. Brewster); Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., xli, 1902, 121 (Cape dis- 

 trict, Lower California, resident; habits; crit.). — Chapmax, Auk, v, 1888, 

 396. — American Ornithologists' Union Committee, Suppl. Check List, 

 1889, 10; Check List, abridged ed., 1889, and 2d ed., 1895, no. 464.1.— Bryant 

 (W. E.), Proc. Calif. Ac. Sci., 2d ser., ii, 1889, 291 (Laguna, Comondu, etc., 

 Lower California).— Townsend (C. H.), Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xiii, 1890, 137 

 (Cape San Lucas).— Anthony, Zoe, iv, 1893, 238 (San Pedro Martir Mts., 

 Lower California), 390 (Cuyniaca Peak, San Diego Co., California). — Coues, 

 Key N. Am. Birds, 4th ed., 1894, 901.— Bendire, Life Hist. N. Am. Birds, 

 ii, 1895, 301.— RiDGWAY, Man. N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1896, 599.— Kaeding, 

 Condor, vii. 1905, 135 (San Jose del Cabo and San Juanico Bay, Apr., May). 



[Empido7ia:i] cineritius Sharpe, Hand-list, iii, 1901, 139. 



E[mpidona.r] cineritius Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 5th ed., i, 1903, 531. 



[Empidonax bairdi] var. dneritia Dibois, Syst. Av., fasc. iv. 1900, 248. 



EMPIDONAX DIFFICILIS BAIRDI (Sclater). 

 BAIRDS FLYCATCHER. 



Similar to E. d. difficilis, but more richh' colored, the upper parts 

 darker or brighter olive-greenish, wing-bands browner, and under 

 parts more strongly yellowish; bill relatively broader (especially 

 toward end), with lateral outlines more convex. 



Adults (sexes alike). — Above plain brownish olive-green to almost 

 olive-brown; tail deep grayish brown, the outer webs of rectrices 

 passing into light olive or olive-browai on edges; wings darker gray- 

 ish brown, the middle and greater coverts broadly tipped with olive- 

 bufl', light buffy olive, or light cinnamon-buff (forming two distinct 

 bands), the secondaries edged (except basally) with the same, the 

 primaries and greater coverts narrowly edged with light olive; a 

 broad orbital ring of yellowish white or very pale j'ellow, interrupted 

 on middle of upper eyelid ; lores pale yellowish or yellowish white, 

 intermixed with dusky, especially near anterior angle of eye; rest 

 of sides of head and sides of neck similar in color to upper parts, fad- 

 ing below into the pale dull olive-yellowish of chin and tliroat; chest 

 and sides light buft'y brownish olive, the sides similar but paler, 

 fading on flanks into light yellow; rest of under parts light yellow 

 (between sulphur and primrose) ; axillars and under wing-coverts 

 primrose yellow, deepening on edge of wing into more buffy or 

 ochraceous yellow; inner webs of remiges edged with pale brownish 

 buffy; maxilla dusky brown or blackish, mandible wholly pale 

 (brownish white in skins) ; iris brown ; legs and feet dusky broAni 

 or blackisli. 



Adult male. —Length (skins), 130-136 (134); wing, 65.5-72 (70); 

 tail, 58-63.5 (61.2); exposed culmen, 11.5-13 (12.4); tarsus, 1&-17.5 

 (17); middle toe, 9-10 (9.3). « 



o Five specimens. 



