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The single North American species of this genus is readily distinguished 

 among other Flycatchers by the bright red of the under parts. The female 

 is quite different in color from the male, being peculiar in this respect among 

 North American Flycatchers. 



Species and Varieties. 



E. obscurus.' Entirely uniform sepia-brown beneath, with a wine-purple 

 tinge pt)steriorly and on the forehead. Hab. Peru. 



E. rubineus. Whole crown, and entire lower parts (except lining of wing), 

 brilliant scarlet-red ; a stripe on side of the head, and entire upper parts, 

 sepia-brownish. Female. Whitish anteriorly beneath, more or less reddish 

 posteriorly ; anterior portion with dusky streaks ; crown dusky. Young 

 without any red; feathers above bordered with lighter; streaks beneath 

 numerous. Length, about 5.50. 



The brown of a dark sepia cast, edges of wing-feathers not appreciably 

 paler, the red with a slight carmine shade. No whitish on the edge of 

 outer nor on tips of other tail-feathers. Hah. South America wav. rubineus-^ 



Similar to last, but outer web of lateral tail-feather distinctly whitish, 

 the rest tipped slightly Avith whitish. Hah. Northern South America 

 (Bogota and Guayaquil) ....... var. nanus. ^ 



The brown of a decided grayish cast, and edges of wing-feathers very 

 distinctly paler ; red more scarlet (but equally intense). No whitish 

 tips to tail-feathers, and no white edge to the outer. Hab. Middle 

 America ; north into southern border of United States . var. mexicanus. 



Pyrocephalus rubineus, var. mexicanus, Sclater. 



RED FLYCATCHER. 



Pyrocephahcs rubineus, Lawrence, Ann. N. Y. Lye. V, May, 1851, 115. Cassin, 111. I, 

 IV, 1853, 127, pi. xvii. — Bairu, Birds N.. Am. 1858, 201. — Salvadori, Atti. Milan, 

 vii, 1864. — Heerm. X, S, 38. Tyraimula coronata, Swainson, "Wagler, Isis, 1831, 

 529. Pyrocephalus nanus, Woodhouse, Sitgreave's Report, 1853, 75 (not of Gould). 

 Pyrocephalus mexicanus, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1859, 45, 56, 36G ; 1864, 176. — Ib. Ibis, 

 1859, 442. — Ib. Catal. 227. — Sclater & Salvin, Ibis, 1860, 399 (Guatemala). — 

 Cabanis, Mus. Hein. ii, 1859, 68. — Cooper, Orn. Cal. I, 1870, 333. 



Sp. Char. Plead with a full rounded or globular crest. Tail even. Crown and whole 

 under parts bright carmine-red; rest of upper parts, including the cheeks as far as the 

 bill, and the lining of the wing, dull grayish-brown; the upper tail-coverts darker; the 

 tail almost black; greater and middle wing-coverts and edges of secondaries and tertials 



1 Pyrocephalus obscurus, Gould, Zool. Voy. Beag. iii, 45. — Sclater, P. Z. S. 1859, 46; 

 Catal. Am. B. 1862, 228 (Peru). 



2 Pyrocephalus rubi^ieus, (Bodd.) Cab. Muscicapa rubinea, Bodd. (ex Buff. pi. enl. cclxv, 

 f. 1). Pyrocephalus r. Cabanis et Hein. Mus. Hein. ii, p. 67. — Sclater, Catal. Am. B. 1862, 

 227. 



3 Pyrocephalus rubineus, var. nanus, Gould, Zool. Beag. iii, 45, pi. vii. — Sclater, P. Z. S. 

 1859, 46, 144 ; 1860, 282, 295 ; Catal. Am. B. 1862, p. 228. The last is hardly separable by 

 the characters given, as, although they are never seen in southern specimens, they are not con- 

 stant in the northern ones. Specimens of nanus are as large as any of rubineus, there being in 

 every region a great range of variation in dimensions. 



