588 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



EMPIDONAX FULVIFRONS FULVIFRONS (Giraud). 

 FULVOUS FLYCATCHER. 



Adult. — Above plain broccoli brown, sligthly darker on pileum and 

 paler on rump ; tail grayish brown (hair brown) , the outer webs of rec- 

 trices passing into paler grayish brown or brownish gra}^ on edges, the 

 outer web of lateral rectrix grayish white; wings deeper hair brown, 

 the middle coverts broadly tipped with pale grayish buff and greater 

 coverts broadly tipped with paler grayish buff (forming two conspicu- 

 ous bands), the secondaries edged (except basally) with dull grayish 

 buffy white; an indistinct orbital ring of pale dull buff or dull buffy 

 white; lores dull buify whitish, intermixed with dusky; rest of sides 

 of head and sides of neck similar in color to upper parts but slightly 

 paler, fading gradually below into the pale grayish buffy of chin and 

 throat; rest of under parts cinnamon-buff, deepest on chest, paler on 

 abdomen and flanks, the under tail-coverts still paler, inclining to buffy 

 white; axillars and under wing-coverts pale buff, deepening into 

 cinnamon-buff on outer edge of wing; inner webs of remiges edged 

 vnth. very pale grayish buffy; maxilla horn brownish, mandible 

 wholly dull whitish (in dried skin); length (skin), 126; wing, 68; tail, 

 57; exposed culmen, 9.5; tarsus, 15.5; middle toe, 8.5." 



"Texas" (Giraud); probably mountains of northeastern Mexico. 



Musdcapa fulvifrons Giraud, Sixteen Sp. Texas Birds, 1841, pi. 2, fig. 2 ("Texas;" 



type now in coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). 

 Mitrephorus fulvifrons Sclateu, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1859, 45. 

 Empidonax fulvifrons (not of Sclater, 1858) Ridgway, Proc. IT. S. Nat. Mus., iii, 



Aug. 24, 1880, 187, 218, 229; Norn. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 329; Proc. Biol. 



Soc. Washington, ii, 1884, 109 (crit.); Ibis, 1886, 462 (diagnosis).— American 



Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 470. — Bendire, Life Ilist. N. 



Am. Birds, ii, 1895, 321. 

 E[mpidonax] fulvifrons Ridoway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 344. 

 [Empidonax] fulvifrons Sharpe, Hand-list, iii, 1901, 137. 

 Mitrephanes fulvifrons Coues, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii, Jan., 1882, 55. 

 [Mitrephorus fulvifrons] -va-r. fulvifrons Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. 



Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 385. 

 [Empidonax fulvifrons var. pallescens'] a., fidvifrons Coues, Birds Northwest, 1874, 



259, part (chiefly E.f. rubicundus). 

 E[mpidonax] (M[itrephane^]) fulvifrons Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 5th ed., i, 



1903, 532. 

 [Pyroccphalus] cinnamomeus "Sw[ainson]" Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 361, no. 5488, 



part. 



a Description and measurements of the type, a specimen of undetermined sex. 

 Making all due allowance for fading (the specimen having been mounted), the differ- 

 ences of coloration from the other two forms of the species are so marked and the 

 measurements so much greater (except those of the bill) that I am convinced it repre- 

 sents a distinct form. 



