PYROCEPHALVS. 345 



tail 1.90-2.15 (2.05), culmcn .48-.50 (.40), bill from nostril .25-.27 

 (.26), width at baso .20, tarsus .52-.58 (.SG). Hab. Soutliern Mexico. 

 E. fulvifrona rubicundus (Cab. & lIiiiN.). Ruddy Flycatcher.' 

 //'. Upiier parts dull grajMsh brown. 



Lower parts pale buff, brightening into oehraceous-bufT 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 ochraeeous 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. Hab. Southern Arizona and New Mexico, south into western 

 Mexico. 

 470(/. E. fulvifrons pygmaeus (Coues). Bnff-breasted Flycatcher. 



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



Sjjecies. 



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

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

 (sometimes nearlj' 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. Xest shallow and very compact, somewhat like that of Contopus 

 virens. Eggs 2-3, .69 X -51, pale olive-buff or dull buffy (rai-ely nearly white), 

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

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

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

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



Gexi-s ORNITHION IIartlaub. (Page 327, pi. XCV., fig. 4.) 



Species. 



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

 dusk}-, the coverts tipped with light brownish gray or brownish, the tertials, sec- 

 ondaries, and quills edged, more or less distinct)}-, with the same, the secondaries, 

 however, with tlie basal fourth, or more, of exposed portion uniform duskj- ; lower 

 parts dull graj'ish white, or j-ellowish white, tinged with grayish laterally, es- 

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



• Empidnnnx ruhicimrlut Cab. A Hkin., Mus. Hein. ii. Sept. 1859, "0, foot-QOte. Empidonnx /ii/n/ro/u 

 riiliViiiirfin Rincw., Pr. Biol. Soc. WmIi. ii. 1SS5, 109. 



' .\ rare mclanistic pluinngc is uniform scpifi-brown, tinged in male with wine-pnrplc on crown and lower 

 pnrtd. This condition is comparatively frequent in the common South American form, or true P. rubincitt 

 (BoDD). 



