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linqueBay; Cape San Lucas). — Ridgway, Nom. N. Am. Birds, ]881, no. 313, 

 part. — Belding, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mas., v, 1883, 541 (Cape district). — Ameri- 

 can Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 454, part. — Sclater, Cat. 

 Birds Brit. Mus., xiv, 1888, 248, 249, part (La Paz; Cape San Lucas).— Salvin 

 and GoDMAN, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1889, 290, part (in synonymy). — 

 Bryant, Proc. Calif. Ac. Sci., 2d ser., 1889, 290, part, at least (Lower Cali- 

 fornia generally). 



Myiarchus crinitus, var. cinerascens Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. X. Am. 

 Birds, ii, 1874, 337, part (Cape San Lucas). 



Myiarchis dnerescens (emendation) Coues, Check List, 2d ed., 1882, no. 375, 

 part. 



Mlyiarchtts] cinercscens Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 430, part; 4lh cd., 

 1894, 436, part (Cape San Lucas; crit.); 5th ed., i, 1903, 520, part. 



M[yiarchiis] cinerascens Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 333, ])art. 



MYIARCHUS NUTTINGI NUTTINGI Ridgway. 

 NUTTING'S FLYCATCHER. 



Similar to M. cinerascens but much smaller, color of l)ack, etc., 

 browner or more olivaceous, yellow of under parts deeper, and inner 

 webs of rectrices (except iniddle pair) wholly cinnamon-ruft)us or with 

 onl}" a narrow space along shaft near end. 



Adults (sexes alike). — Above light olive to grayish browm, the 

 pileum browner (broccoli brown) with feathers darker centrally, the 

 upper tail-coverts more or less tinged or edged with rusty ; both webs 

 of middle rectrices and outer webs of others deep grayish browai, the 

 outer web of lateral rectrix paler, sometimes approaching dull white; 

 inner webs of rectrices (except middle pair) wholly cinnamon-rufous 

 or else with a more or less narrow space terminally next to shaft; 

 wings dusky grayish brown, the middle and greater coverts broadly 

 tipped with pale grayish brown to dull buffy whitish, the secondaries 

 edged with the same, the edgings broader and more whitish on proxi- 

 mal (mner) secondaries, narrower and tinged with rusty on distal 

 (outer) secondaries; primaries broadly edged (except terminally) 

 with cinnamon-rufous ; greater coverts narrowly edged with pale gray- 

 ish brown; sides of head and neck gray, slightly tinged with light 

 olive-brown, gradually fading below into the pale gray (about no. 10) 

 of malar region, chin, throat, and chest; rest of under parts, includ- 

 ing axillars and under wing-coverts, light yellow (deep primrose to 

 between pale canary and straw yellow) ; inner webs of remiges edged 

 with pinkish buff; bill brownish black or blackish brown, the man- 

 dible paler brownish basally; iris brown; legs and feet dusky bro\m 

 to brownish black. 



