BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 567 



Mus., ii, 1879, 1 (descr. eggs from Blue R., Colorado and Anderson R., 

 Mackenzie).— (??) Frazar, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, v, 1880, 184 ("Dakota"; 

 descr. nest and eggs). — ^Minot, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, v. 1880, 231 (Colorado; 

 notes).— CouES, Check List, 2d ed., 1882, no. 390.— Brewster, Bull. Nutt. 

 Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 206 (Tombstone, Tucson, and Santa Rita Mis., Arizona; 

 crit.). — Allen and Brewster, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, viii, 1883, 195 (Colorado 

 Springs, Colorado). — Drew, Auk, ii, 1885, 15 (Colorado breeding from plains 

 to 8,000 ft.).— Evermann, Auk, iii, 1886, 180 (Ventura Co., California, breed- 

 ing). — American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 468. — Scott, 

 Auk, iv, 1887, 19 (Santa Catalina Mts., Arizona; migr.). — Cooke, Bird Migr. 

 Miss. Val., 1888, 155 (Vermilion, South Dakota, rare summer resident ;" Tom 

 Green and Concho counties, w. Texas; migr.). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. 

 Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1889, 76 (Sierra de Valparaiso, Zacatecas; Calderas, 

 7,500 ft., and Volcan de Fuego, 10,000 to 12,000 ft., Guatemala).— Richmond 

 and Knowlton, Auk, xi, 1894, 304 (Squaw Creek, Montana, Aug.). — 

 (YV) Thorne, Auk, xii, 1895, 215 (Fort Keogh, Montana, breeding^). — Ben- 

 dire Life Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1895, 315, pi. 2, fig. 32 (egg).— Merrill, 

 Auk, xiv, 1897, 355 (Fort Sherman, Idaho, breeding; habits; descr. nest and 

 eggs). — Bishop, North Am. Fauna, no. 19, 1900, 80 (Skagway, Glacier, Caribou 

 Crossing, 15 m. below Selwyn R., and thence to Circle, Alaska). — Rathbi^n 

 (S. F.), Auk. xix, 1902, 136 (Seattle, Washington, breeding).— Bailey 

 (Florence M.), Handb. Birds W. U. S., 1902, 262. 



Empidonax ^'hammondi'- Allen, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., iii, 1872, 179 (Utah; 

 Wyoming). 



E[mpidonax\ hammondi Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 443; 5th ed., 

 i, 1903, 531.— RiDGWAY, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 344. 



[Empidonax] havimondi Sharpe, Hand-list, iii, 1901, 139. 



[Pyrocephalus] hammondii Gray', Hand-list, i, 1869, 361, no. 5499. 



Empidonax minimus (not of Baird) Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xiv, 1888, 

 228, part (Volcan de Fuego, Guatemala). 



EMPIDONAX WRIGHTII Baird. 

 WRIGHT'S FLYCATCHER. 



Similar to E. hammondii, but outermost (tenth) primary shorter than 

 fifth, instead of longer; bill much longer; tail and tarsus longer (but 

 wing averaging shorter), and coloration of anterior imder parts paler 

 and less uniform. 



Adults (sexes alilce). — Above plain olive, the pileum and liindneck 

 slightly grayer (or less browTiish); tail deep grayish brown, the outer 

 webs of rectrices passing into olive on edges, the outer web of lateral 

 rectrix dull white or yellowish white; wings dusW, tlie middle and 

 greater coverts rather broadly tipped with pale gravish brown, pale 

 buffy%live, or grayish buff (forming two distinct bands), the second- 

 aries edged (except basally) with the same or dull whitish; a broad 

 but not very distinct orbital ring of dull white, much narrower and 

 sometimes interrupted on upper eyelid; lores mixed dull white and 

 dusky; rest of sides of head and sides of neck similar in color to 

 upper parts but more or less paler, gradually fading below into the 



a Probably an error, the species being doubtless E. minimus. 



