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tail 1.90-2.15 (2.05), culmen .48-.50 (.49), bill from nostril .25-.27 

 (.26), width at base .20, tarsus .52-.58 (.56). Hab. Southern Mexico. 

 E. fulvifrons rubicundus (Cab. &, Hein.). Ruddy Flycatcher.^ 

 V. Upper parts dull grayish brown. 



Lower parts pale buff, brightening into ochraceous-buff on breast and 

 anterior portion of sides. Young : Wing-bands buff (instead of 

 light grayish brown or dull grayish white), the lower parts much 

 paler and duller buff, without ochraceous tinge. Length about 4.75- 

 5.10, wing 2.20-2.45 (2.34), tail 1.95-2.14 (2.06), culmen .50-.55 (.52), 

 bill from nostril .25-.27 (.26), width at base .20-.22 (.21), tarsus .51- 

 .60. Hah. Southern Arizona and New Mexico, south into western 

 Mexico. 

 470(2, E. fulvifrons pygmaeus (Coues). Buff-breasted Flycatcher. 



Genus PYROCEPHALUS Gould. (Page 327, pi. XCIL, fig. 2.) 



Species. 



Adult male : Whole top of head and entire lower parts bright scarlet ; ear-cov- 

 erts and upper parts (except top of head) brownish gray, the wings and tail dai'ker 

 (sometimes nearly black). Adult female : Above brownish gray, including crown ; 

 lower parts whitish, more or less tinged with pale red or salmon-color posteriorly, 

 the breast more or less streaked with grayish. Immature male : Similar to adult 

 female, but with red feathers intermixed on crown and anterior lower parts. 

 Young: Above grayish, the feathers bordered with whitish; beneath whitish, 

 without any reddish tinge posteriorly. Length about 5.50-6.25, wing 3.20-3.40, 

 tail 2.60-2.80. Nest shallow and very compact, somewhat like that of Contopus 

 virens. Eggs 2-4, .68 X -52, pale olive-buff or dull buffy (rarel}^ nearly white), 

 boldly and heavily spotted, chiefly in wreath round larger end, or near middle, 

 with dark vandyke-brown or brownish black and purplish gray. Hah. Mexico 

 and Guatemala, and north to southern border of United States (southern Texas to 

 Arizona) 471. P. rubineus mexicanus (Scl.). Vermilion Flycatcher.'^ 



Genus ORNITHION Hartlaub. (Page 327, pi. XCV., fig. 4.) 



Species. 



Common Characters. — Above plain brownish gray, or olive-gray ; wings more 

 dusky, the covei'ts tipped with light brownish gray or brownish, the tertials, sec- 

 ondaries, and quills edged, more or less distinctly, with the same, the secondaries, 

 however, with the basal fourth, or more, of exposed portion uniform dusk}- ; lower 

 pai'ts dull grayish white, or yellowish white, tinged with grayish laterally, es- 

 pecially on sides of breast ; sides of head hght grayish, without distinct mark- 



1 Empidonax rubicundus Cab. & Hein., Mus. Hein. ii. Sept. 1859, 70, foot-note. Empidonax fulvifrons 

 rubicundus Ridgw., Pr. Biol. Soc. Wash. ii. 1885, 109. 



^ A rare melanistic plumage is uniform sepia-brown, tinged in male with wine-purple on crown and lower 

 parts. This con4ition is comparatively frequent in the common South American form, or true P. rubineus 

 (Bodd). 



