451. Sulphur-bellied 

 Flycatcher. Myiody- 

 nastes luteiventris. 



Range. — Mexico and Cen- 

 tral America, breeding north 

 to the Mexican border of Ari- 

 zona. 



This peculiar Flycatcher, 

 which is unlike any other 

 American species, can only 

 be regarded as a rare breed- 

 ing bird in the Huachuca Mts. 

 It is S inches in length, has 

 a grayish back streaked with 



PERCHING BIRDS 



« Irested Flycatcher 



Creamy buff 



black, the tail largely rustj 

 brown and the underparts sul 

 phur yellow, streaked on the 

 breast and sides with dusky ; 

 a yellow crown patch is bord- 

 ered on either side by a stripe 

 Of mottled dusky, and is sep- 

 arated from the blackish 

 patch through the eye, by 

 white superciliary lines. Their 



habits are similar to those of the genus Myiarchus, and, like them, they nest in 

 cavities in trees, and lay from three to live eggs of a creamy buff color thickly 

 spotted and blotched with brown and purplish, the markings not assuming the 

 3cratchy appearance of the ('rested Flycatchers, but looking more like those of 

 a Cardinal ; size of egg 1.05 \ .7.",. Data. — Huachuca Mts., Arizona, June 29, 1901. 

 4 eggs. Nest in the natural cavity of a live sycamore tree about fifty feet from 

 the ground; composed of twigs. Collector. (). W. Howard. 



l.vj. Crested Fly< vt< her. Myiarchus crinitus. 



Range. North America, east of the Plains, and from New Brunswick and 

 Manitoba southward; winters from the Gulf States southward. 



This trim and graceful, hut quarrelsome, species is gray- 

 ish on the bead, aeck, and In-cast, shading to greenish on 

 the hack and quite abruptly into brighl yellow on the 

 underparts; the head is slightly crested and the inner webs 

 of all the lateral tail leathers are reddish brown. Thej 



are abundant in mosl of their range hut are generally shy 



so they are not as often -een as many other more rare 



birds. They nesl in cavities of anj kind of trees and at 



any elevation from the ground, the nest being made ol 



twins, weeds ami trash, ami generally having Incorporated 



Into it- make-up a piece "i casl off snake skin. Tb.es laj from tour to bL 



t'KKs of a liii it \ color, Notched and lined with dark brown ami lavender. 



Size .86 \ .65, 



286 



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luff 



