BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 589 



EMPIDONAX FULVIFRONS PYGMiEUS (Coues). 

 BUFF-BREASTED FLYCATCHER. 



Similar to E. f. fulvifrons, but decidedly smaller and color of upper 

 parts either darker or grayer. 



Adults in spr^ing and summer (sexes alike) . — Above plain hair brown 

 or buffy hair brown, slightly darker and duller on pileum; tail more 

 grayish brown, the outer webs of rect rices passmg into paler grayish 

 brown on edges, the outer web of lateral rectrix grayish white; wings 

 deep grayish brown, the primaries and greater coverts narrowly edged 

 with paler, the middle and gi-eater coverts broadly tipped with pale 

 buffy grayish, grayish buffy, or dull whitish, the secondaries edged 

 (except basally) with dull whitish ; a rather indistinct orbital ring of 

 dull buffy white; lores dull buffy white, slightly intermixed with 

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

 parts, but slightly paler, gradually fading below into the dull buffy 

 whitish or pale buff of chin and tlu-oat; chest and sides buff to taAvny- 

 buff, paler on flanks; abdomen and under tail-coverts pale buff or 

 buffy white ; axillars and under wing-coverts pale buff, deeper toward 

 edge of wing; inner webs of remiges edged with pale grayish buff; 

 maxilla dusky brown to brownish black, mandible wholly pale yel- 

 lowish; iris brown; legs and feet dusky brown to brownish black. 



Adults in autumn and winter. — Similar to the spring and summer 

 plumage, but color of upper parts more buffy (buffy broccoli browm), 

 wing-bands more buffy, and under parts more deeply colored, the 

 chest, etc., tawny buff, the tliroat, abdomen, etc., light yellowish buff 

 or buff-yellow. 



Young. — Similar to spring and summer adults, but upper parts 

 browner and wing-bands dull buff or cinnamon-buff. 



Adult male.'—Leiigi.h (skins), 107-116 (111); wing, 56-65 (61.4); 

 tail, 44-53 (49); exposed culmen, 8.5-11 (10) ; tarsus,-13.5-15.5 (14.3); 

 middle toe, 7-8.5 (7.9). « 



Adult female. —Ijengih. (skins), 100-115 (107); wing, 56-61 (58.4); 

 tail, 46-49.5 (47.4); exposed culmen, 8.5-10 (9.6); tarsus, 13.5-14.5 

 (14.1); middle toe, 7-8 (7.5).^ 



Breeding in mountains of central and southern Ai'izona (Chiricahua, 

 Huachuca, and Santa Rita ranges; Fort Whipple; Apache; Bow^e), 

 southwestern New Mexico (Lone Mountain; El Moro; Inscription 

 Rock; Fort Bayard; Grant County), and northern Chihuahua (Pinos 

 Altos ; Colonia Garcia) ; migrating southward thi'ough Sonora (near 

 Alamos, January; Nacosari, March), and southern Chihuahua (Duras- 

 no, December; Sierra Madre, near Guadalupe y Calvo, September; 



o- Thirteen specimens. & Eight specimens. 



