572 BULLETIN no, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



1895, no. 469.1.— JouY, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xvi, 1894, 783 (Soledad, San 

 Luis Potosi).— Bendire, life Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1895, 320.— Ridgway, 

 Man. N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1896, 599.— Grinnell (J.), Pub. 2, Pasadena Ac. 

 Sci., 1898, 31 (Los Angeles Co., California, resident; 7,500 to 8,500 ft. in sum- 

 mer, lowlands in fall and winter); Check List Birds Calif., 1902, 44. — Bailev 

 (Florence M.), Handb. Birds W. U. S., 1902, 263.— Swarth, Pacific Coast 

 Avifauna, no. 4, 1904, 26 (Huachuca Mts., Arizona, migratory; crit.). 



[Empidonax] griseus Sharpe, Hand-list, iii, 1901, 140. 



E[)v pidonax] griseus Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 5th ed., i, 1903, 532. 



Empidonax canescens Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, sig. 10, 

 Feb., 1889, 79 (Mexicalcingo, near City of Mexico; coll. Salvin and Godman). — 

 Nelson, Auk, xxi, 1904, 80 (crit. nomencl.). — American Ornithologists' 

 Union Committee, Auk, xxi, 1904, 413. — Dixon, Condor, vii, 1905, 139 (Dry 

 Lake, San Bernardino Co., California, breeding; descr. nest and eggs). 



[Empidonax] canescens Sharpe, Hand-list, iii, 1901, 140. 



EMPIDONAX PULVERIUS Brewster. 

 SIERRA MADRE FLYCATCHER. 



Most resembling E. vyriglitii, l)iit mandible wholly whitish, wing and 

 tail decidedly longer, 1)111 and tarsus shorter, and in winter plumage 

 with upper ])arts much more greenish olive and under parts with 

 yellow of abdomen deeper and olive of chest darker. 



Adults in breeding jplumage {sexes alike). — Above plain grayish 

 olive, more or less darker on pileum, lighter on runi]) and n])per tail- 

 coverts; tail deep grayish brown or brownish gray (grayer than han 

 brown), the outer webs of rectrices passing into light grayish olive on 

 edges, tlie outer web of lateral rectrix dull white; wings darker 

 grayish brown or brownish slate, the middle and greater coverts 

 broadly tipped with ])ale brownish gray or slightly huffy gray (form- 

 ing two conspicuous bands), the secondaries edged (except basally) 

 with the same or dull grayish white, the primaries narrowly edged 

 with the same; a broad orbital ring of dull white or yellowish white, 

 scarcely interrupted on upper eyelid; lores mixed whitish and dusky; 

 rest of sides of 4iead and sides of neck similar in color to back, gradu- 

 ally fading below into very pale yellowish gray or dull grayish white 

 on chin and throat; chest light grayish olive, tinged with oil yellow- 

 ish, the sides similar but paler, fading posteriorly; rest of under parts 

 pale (priim'ose) yellow; axillars and under wing-coverts dull primrose 

 yellow, the latter tinged with brownish and dusky on edge of wing; 

 inner webs of remiges broadly edged with very pale brownish huffy; 

 maxilla blackish brown or brownish black, mandible wholly pale 

 (straw yellowish in life) or very rarely tinged with brownish near tip ; 

 legs and feet blackisli brown or brownish black. 



Admits in winter 'plumage. — Above much more decidedly olive 

 (slightly greenish olive), beneath more extensively and much more 

 deeply yellowish, the whole abdomen, etc., deep ])rinu-ose or straw 



