328 CRYING BIRDS — CLAMATORES. 



The outer edge of the tail feathers like the hack ; that of the lateral one rather li<;hter. 

 Length, 6.00 ; extent, 8.50 ; wing, 2.90 ; tail, 2.60. Iris hrown ; bill black, pale brown he- 

 low ; feet black. 



Bah. Eastern United States and south to Mexico. Colorado River, California. 



Although Nuttall thought he saw thi.s .species on the banks of the Cohim- 

 bia, no specimens were obtained west of the Eocky Mountains by any of 

 the later explorers. 



At Fort Mojave on the first of May, I found several of them inhaliiting a 

 very dark dense thicket, being attracted by their note, which sounded like 

 qucet-quA(h. They were very shy ; and though afterwards more common 

 there, I obtained but three. They differed from the description given by 

 Baird only in having the sides of body viorc yellow than the back. I after- 

 wards heard their peculiar note in the thickets along Mojave Paver, near 

 Los Angeles, and in May, 1863, at Santa Barbara. 



Heerman, though he found no specimens in the State, mentions it as 

 " abundant," but whether in California or Te.xas is uncertain. 



[I do not agree with Dr. Cooper in considering the California species to be 

 U. Traillii, as all the specimens examined by me from the :Middle and 

 Western Provinces appear to belong to E. inmiUus. This differs in having 

 the tarsus decidedly longer than middle toe ; the first quill shorter than 

 sixth, not longer ; the color is also appreciably distinct. The synonymy is as 

 follows.* S. P. B,] 



Empidonax flaviventris, B.\ird, 



THE YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHER. 



Tiirannula flaviventris, Wm. 51. and S. F. B.urd, I'r. Ac. Nat. Sc. I'liila. I. .T„Iy, 1843, 28,3. 

 Ib. Am. Journ. Science, April, 1844. — Audubon, Birds Amcr. IV. 1844, 341 ; pi. 



490. 

 Tymnmda p„silla (Swainson), Rcinhardt, Vidensk. Mcddd. fur 1853, 1854, 82.-Ologee, 



Cab. Journ. 1854, 426. 

 Empidonax flai-iveiitris, Baird, P. R. Rep. IX. Birds, 198. 

 Empidonax diflicili^, Baird (provisional name for Western specimens), Bh-ds N. Amcr. pi. 



75^ f. 2. — Cooi'ER and Sucklet, XII. iii. errata, p. xv. Zool. of W. T. 170. 



Sp. Char. Second, third, and fourth quills nearly e.|nal ; first intermediate between 

 fifth and sixth. Tail nearly even, slightly rounded. Tarsi long. Above bright olive- 

 green ; crown rather darker. A broad yellow ring round the eye. The sides of the head, 

 neck, breast, and body, and a band across the breast like the back, but lighter ; the rest 



* Empidonax ri;sii.n;R. — ? P/nd/r/K/nr/iHs pui^illns, Swainson, Phil. Map;. 1827, 366. — Ti/- 

 rnnmda pusilla, Swainson, F. Bor. Am. II. 1831, 144 ; plate. - ,1/»sara/« pusilla, Audubon, Oni. 

 Bio-. V, 1839, 288; pi. iU. — T,jmnnus pusilla, Nuttall, Man. I. 2d ed, ISiO. — Empidonax 

 pm'illus,^.K\-RV, Birds N. Amcr. 1858, 194. — Coues, Pr. Pliil. Acad. 1866, 61. 



Hah. Middle and Western Provinces of United States ; nortli to Saskatchewan. 



