BIKDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 583 



Adult male. — Length (skin), 136; wing, 69; tail, 58; exposed cul- 

 inen, 11.5; tarsus, 17.5; middle toe, 9.5." 



Adult female. — Length (skin), 125; wing, 64.5; tail, 57; exposed 

 culmen, 11.5; tarsus, 16; middle toe, 9.5.^* 



Highlands of Guatemala (Coban; Choctum; Calderas, on Volcan 

 de Fuego; Volcan de Agua), Chiapas (Tumbala), and Honduras.*^ 



Empidonax bairdi {not of Sclater, 1858) Sclater and Salvin, Ibis, 1860, .36 (Coban, 

 Guatemala). — Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 230, part (Coban). 



[Empidonax] bairdi Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 52, part (Guate- 

 mala) . 



Empidonax salvini Ridgway, Ibis, 5th ser., iv, Oct., 1886, 459 (Calderas, Volcan 

 de Fuego, Guatemala; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). — Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. AIus., 

 xiv, 1888, 231 (Volcan de Agua, Calderas Choctum, and Coban, Guatemala; 

 Honduras). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1889, 75. 



E[rnpidonax] salvini Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 341. 



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



(?) [Pyrocephalus]" 7 hypoxanthus, Baird" (not Empidonax hypoxanthus Baird) 

 Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 361, no. 5495 (Vera Paz). 



EMPIDONAX FLAVESCENS Lawrence. 

 YELLOWISH FLYCATCHER. 



Adults (sexes alike). — Above plain deep yellowish olive-green; tail 

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

 olive-green on edges; wings darker grayish brown or dusky, the 

 middle and greater coverts broadly tipped with cinnamon-buff, buff", 

 or greenish buff, forming two distinct bands, the greater coverts and 

 primaries narrowly edged with light olive; secondaries edged (except 

 basally) with olive-yellowish; a broad and conspicuous pale yellow or 

 3^ellowish white orbital ring; lores pale yellowish and dusky; rest of 

 sides of head and sides of neck yellowish olive-green, the auricular 

 region with paler (yellowish) shaft-streaks; cliin pale yellow or yel- 

 lowish white, sometimes suffused laterally with grayish or dusky; 

 throat clear yellow (more or less deep) ; chest varying from light 

 yellowish olive or olive-yellow to deep wax yellow; rest of under 

 parts pure light yellow (sulphur to canary), the sides tinged with 

 light olive; axillars and under wing-coverts pale yellow, the latter 

 becoming deep buff-yellow toward edge of wing; inner webs of remi- 

 ges edged with pale dull buft'y; maxilla black, or brownish black, 

 mandible whitish; iris brown; legs and feet dusky brown or blackish. 



Young. — Similar to adults but more brownish olive-green above, 

 paler ^^ellowish beneath (abdomen almost white), chest brownish 

 buffy, and wing-bands and edges of secondaries cinnamomeous. 



o One specimen, from Calderas, Guatemala. 



& One specimen, from Tumbala, Chiapas. 



c According to Sclater, no definite locality being given. 



