532 5 YS TEMA TIC S YNOPSIS. — PA SSER ES— CLA MA TOR ES. 



specimens in particular giving somewhat the eflPect of a d\vty flavirentris ; the tiny bill is a 

 good mark. Nesting substantially like minimus; eggs normally ichite, niunarked, rarely 

 speckled a little, 3-4 in number, 0.(35 X 0.50. Note " a soft pit." 



E. wright'i. (To C Wright.) Wright's Flycatcher. Gray Little Flycatcher. 

 Adult (J 9 '• Colors not very tangibly different from those of trailli or minimus, but outer iceb 

 of outer tail-feather abruptly ivhite in decided contrast. General tcjue quite gray; gray below 

 quite across breast, giving the effect there of Contopus richardsoni; under mandible obscured ; 

 eye-ring and wing-edgings quite whitish. Geueral dimensions approaching those of rirescens, 

 owing to length of wings and tail. Length doubtless up to 6.00, and extent to 9.50; wing 

 2.66-3.00; tail 2.50-2.75; tarsi 0.70-0.75; bill 0.50 or more, extremely narrow (much as iu 

 Sayornis phcebe) , its width at nostrils only about ^ its length. The bird looks singularly like 

 the western Contopus, though of course immediately seen to be Empidonax. Western U. S., 

 N. to British Columbia, Rocky Mts. to the Pacific, S. in winter through most of Mexico ; es- 

 pecially a bird of the mountains, where found up to 10,000 feet or more, common in woodland, 

 groves, and thickets. To complete the analogies between the eastern and western Empidona- 

 ces, this may be considered to represent virescens. Nesting, however, substantially as in mini- 

 mus : a neat, compact, deep-cupped nest in crotch of a bush or sapling, often deeper than broad^ 

 and commonly lined with feathers or hair; eggs 3-4, white, unmarked, large, up to 0.75 X 

 0.58, and averaging 0.68 X 0.52. Note "a weird sweer," "a soft liquid whit.^' (This is E. 

 obscurus Baird, B. N. A. 1858, p. 200, and of lst-3d eds. of the Key, but questionably Ty- 

 rannula obscura Sw. Phil. Mag. i, 1827, p. 367; it is E. icriyhtii of Baird, I. c, in text, the 

 name preferably adopted in view of the uncertainty of Swainson's bird : see Brewster, Auk, 

 Apr. 1889, p. 89, and Coues, Key, 4th ed. 1890, p. 901 ; A. O. U. List, 2d ed. 1895, No. 469. 

 E. gris'eus. (Lat. griseus, grisly, gray.) Gray Flycatcher. Nearest E. ivrighti: larger 

 and much grayer ; bill longer, flesh-colored on basal half of lower mandible, in contrast with 

 its blackish terminal portion. ^, wing 2.68; tail 2.45; tarsus 0.72; bill 0.62. Sonora, L. 

 and S. California, and southern Arizona. Brewster, Auk, Apr. 1889, p. 87 ; Coues, Key, 

 4th ed. 1890, p. 901 ; A. 0. U. List, 2d ed. 1895, No. 469. 1 .) 



(Subgenus Mitrephanes.) 

 E. (M.) ful'vifrous. (Lat. fulrus, fulvous; frons, forehead.) Fulvous Flycatcher. 

 Little Buff Flycatcher. Quite different from any of the foregoing, and type of a genus 

 Mitrephorus Sclater, 1859, or Mitrephanes Coues, 1882. Coronal feathers and rictal bristles 

 longer than is usual in Empidonax, and general cast of plumage bufl'y or fulvous rather than 

 olivaceous. Above, umber brown ; below, buff, paler or wliitish on the belly and under tail- 

 coverts. Length about 5.25 ; wing 2.70; tail 2.40; bill 0.. 50; tarsus 0.60. Eastern Mexico to 

 the Rio Grande of Texas. Mitrephanes fulvifrons of the Key, 3d ed. 1887, p. 879 ; Empi- 

 donax fulmfrons, A. 0. U. List, 1886, p. 236; Ridgw. Man. 1887, p. 344; A. 0. U. List, 2d 

 ed. 1895, p. 189 No. [470.]. 



E. f. pygmae'us. (Lat, pygmeeus, pigmy, dwarf.) Little Buff-breasted Fly- 

 catcher. Adult $ 9 '• Above, dull grayish-brown tinged with olive, particularly on back ; 

 below, pale fulvous, strongest across breast, whitening on belly ; no fulvous on forehead ; sides 

 of head light brownish-olive; wings and tail dusky, outer web of outer tail-feathers, edges of 

 inner primaries except at base, and tips of wing-coverts, whitish ; iris brown ; bill yellow be- 

 low, black above; feet black. Length 4.75; extent 7.-33; wing 2.20; tail 2.00; tarsus 0.55; 

 middle toe and claw 0.45 ; bill 0.40. New Mexico, Arizona, and southward ; apparently not 

 common, and not yet well known. I discovered it at Fort Whipple, Ariz., May 9, 1865; it 

 has been seen in the same territory in Sept. ; and fledglings were observed at Inscription Rock, 

 N. M., July 24. Nests in mountainous regions up to 9,000 feet, in June and July. The 

 nest is saddled on a limb, 20-50 feet from the ground, resembling that of the Blue-gray 



