270 Birds of Colorado 



Bendire describes a nest sent him by Denis Gale from 

 Gold Hill, taken on July 7th, at about 9,500 feet. 



Genus MYIOCHANES. 



Flycatchers of medium or small size — wing 2-5 to 4-5, with a broad, 

 flattened biU, the width of which across the nostrils is often f the 

 length of the culmen ; wing long and pointed, the outer primary 

 always exceeding the fifth, often the sixth ; tail slightly emarginate, 

 plain coloured, from f to | the length of the wing ; feet very slender 

 and small ; tarsus about the same length as the culmen and generally 

 exceeding the middle toe and claw ; no conspicuous silky tufts on 

 either side of the rump. 



A considerable genus of some seventeen species, spread over the whole 

 of temperate and tropical America (except the West Indies) ; one 

 species commonly occurs in Colorado. 



Key of the Species. 



A. Dusky ohve above ; lower mandible dusky brown. 



C. richardsoni, p. 271. 



B. Greenish-olive above ; lower mandible whitish. 



C. virens, p. 270. 



Wood-Pewee. Myiochanes virens. 



A.O.U. Checklist no 461 — Colorado Record — Warren 06, p. 21. 



Description. — Closely resembling the Western Wood-Pewee, but 

 distinguished by the darker and more olive and less ashy shade of the 

 back ; by the less extent of the dusky grey band on the chest, which is 

 more or less interrupted in the middle so as to form two lateral patches ; 

 and by the pale whitish colour of the lower mandible, which is pinkish 

 in life, but usually has the extreme tip brownish. Length 5-50 ; wing 

 3-30 ; tail 2-50 ; tarsus -40 ; culmen -50. 



The sexes are alike, and the young essentially similar to the 

 adults. 



Distribution. — Breeding throughout eastern North America, from 

 Manitoba and Prince Edward Island southwards to Texas and Florida ; 

 migrating southwards in winter through Mexico and Central America 

 as far as Ecuador and Peru, and also to Cuba. 



The Wood-Pewee is common as far as the eastern border of the great 

 plains, westwards of which (i.e. in western Kansas) it is rare. It has 

 only once been met with in Colorado ; Warren obtained a single 

 specimen near Springfield, in the extreme south-east corner of the State, 

 on May 12th, 1905. 



