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Empidonax virescms Brewster, Auk, xii, Apr., 1895, 157 (crit.).— American 

 Ornithologists' Union Committee, Check List, 2d ed., 1895, no. 465; Auk, 

 xiv, 1897, 127.— Bangs, Proc. Biol. Sue. Wash., xii, 1898, 137 (Santa Marta, 

 Colombia).— Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist.,xiii, 1900, 143 (Bonda, Onaca, 

 and Valparaiso, Santa Marta, Colombia, Nov. 16 to Mar. 21); Auk, xvii, 

 1900,365 (do).— Cary, Auk, xviii, 1901, 235 (Pine Ridge, Sioux Co., Nebraska, 

 1 spec. May 26).— Allison, Auk, xxi, 1904, 478 (West Baton Rouge Parish. 

 Louisiana, breeding).— Todd, Ann. Carnegie Mus., ii, 1904, 563 (Erie Co., 

 w. Pennsylvania, breeding).— fexocKARD, Auk, xxii, 1905, 157 (Mississippi, 

 breeding).— Wood, Auk, xxiii, 1906, 423 (Wayne Co., Michigan, breeding). 



E[mpidonax] virescens Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1896, 342.— CouES, 

 Key N. Am. Birds, 5th ed., i, 1903, 528. 



[Empidonax] virescens Sharpe, Hand-list, iii, 1901, 138. 



Muscicapa pusilla (not Platyrhynchiis piisilliis Swainson) I^embeye, Aves de la 

 Isla de Cuba, 1850, 40. 



Empidonax pusillus (not of Baird) C'abanis, Journ. fiir Orn., 1855, 480 (Cuba). — 

 GuNDLACH, Journ. fur Orn., 1861, 410 (Cuba); 1871, 286 (Cuba). 



Myiarchns pusilla Brewer, Proc.Bost. Soc. N. H., vii, 1860, 307 (Cuba). 



Tyrannula pusilla (not of Swainson) Gundlach, Journ. fur Orn., 1855, 480 (Cuba). 



Empidonax bairdii (not of Sclater) Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., vii, 1862, 327 

 (Panama). 



Empidonax gnseigularis Lawrence, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., vii, 1862, 471 

 (Panama; coll. G. N. Lawrence). 



[Empidonax] gnseigularis Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 52. 



Empidonax acadicits var. griseigularis Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. 

 N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 365, footnote. 



[Pyrocephalus] griscigidaris Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 361, no. 5498. 



EMPIDONAX TRAILLII TRAILLII (Audubon). 

 TRAILL S FLYCATCHER. 



Adults {sexes alike). — Above ])lain olive (varying: from a slightly 

 grayish to a decidedly brownish hue), the pileiim and hindneck 

 usually very slightly grayer or less brownish than back, etc., tlie 

 rump and upper tail-coverts paler and more brownish olive; tail 

 deep grayish brown, the outer webs of rectrices passing into olive 

 on edges, the outer web of lateral rectrix paler, sometimes approach- 

 ing dull whitish; wings darker grayish brown, the middle and greater 

 coverts broadly tipped with pale olive or pale buffy grayish brown, 

 forming two conspicuous bands, of w^hich the posterior one is usually 

 more or less paler than the anterior, sometimes approaching dull 

 olive-whitish; secondaries edged (except basally) with olive-whiti.sh, 

 yellowish white or (rarely) nearly pure white; lores and an indistinct 

 orbital ring olive-whitish, the former intermixed with dusky, es])e- 

 cially near anterior angle of eye; rest of sides of head and sides of 

 neck similar in color to upper parts but slightly paler and grayer, 

 gradually fading below into the white (more or less pure) of chin and 

 throat; chest and sides of breast pale l)i-ownish gray or olive-gray, 

 the sides similar but paler, fading into pale olive or greenish olive 



