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/387. rimpicTorias minimus Bd. b 142. c 258. r 326. 



Least Flycatcher. 



388. Empidonax flaviventris Bd. b 144. c 259. r 322. 



Yellow-bellied Flycatcher. 



389. Empidonax flaviventris difficilis Bd. b i44a. c — . r 323. (?) 



Western Yellow-bellied Flycatcher. 



,390. Empidonax hammondi (Xant.) Bd. b 145. c 200. r 327. 



Hammond's Flycatcher. 



391. Empidonax obscurus (Sw.) Bd. b i46. c 201. R 328. 



Wright's Flycatcher. 



392. Mitrephorus fulvifrons pallescens Coues. b — . c 202. r 329a. 



Buflf-breasted Flycatcher. 



393. Ornithinm imberbe Scl. b — . c — . R 331. 



Beardless Flycatcher. 



394. Pyrocephalus rubinens mexicanus (Scl.) Coues. b 147. c 263. R 330. 



Mexican Vermilion Flycatcher. 



395. Nyctidromus albicoUis (Gra.) Burm. b — . c — . R 356. 



Pauraque. 



387. E. mln'-I-mus. Lat. mi'ni'm?<s, least, smallest, superlative degree of parvus, little. 



388. E. fla-vl-ven'-trls. Lat. ^ayus, yellow ; fenfri's, pertaining to the belly, render, belly; prob- 



ably digammated from Gr. ivnpov, the entrails. 



389. E. f. dif-fl'-cl-lls. Lat. difficilis, diflBoult, not facile ; dis-facilis, not easily do-able ; facio, I 



do; like agilis, active, or utilis, useful, from 070 and utor. It is applied to the bird 

 as the French would call a person difficile, that is, hard to get at, manage, understand, 

 impracticable; the subspecies not being readily distinguished from E. flaviventris. 



390. E. ham'-m6nd-i. To Dr. W. A. Hammond, sometime Surgeon General, U. S. Army. 



391. E. 6b-scu'-rus. See ^lio/o/An/s, No. 314. — To C. Wright, the discoverer. Swainson's bird 



is very uncertain, and our species might be called E. wrighti. 



392. Mi-tre'-ph6r-us ful'-vi-frons pal-les'-cens. Gr. jxiTpa or fjiirpt), a mitre or other head- 



dress, and <pop6s, bearing, from (ptpw, same as Lat. fero, I bear. We believe either 

 mitrephorus or mitrophorus to be admissible ; the former has currency, though the latter 

 maybe preferable. — La.t. fidvits, yellowish, fulvous, and /ro«s, forehead. — Lat. palles- 

 cens, somewhat pale, from pallesco, I grow pale ; palleo, of same meaning. The allusion 

 is to the pale coloration in comparison with the stock-form /u/tv/rons. [See Index, p. 137.] 



393. 6r-nith'-i-iam im-ber'-b6. Gr. opvidiov, a little bird; diminutive of ipvis, & bird. — Lat. 



imberbe, beardless, from in, negation, and barba, beard. The genus is commonly written 

 Ornithion, but it is customary to change -ov of the Greek into -nm in Latin. 



Not in the orig. ed. ; since discovered in Texas by G. B. Sennett. See Coues, The 

 Country, i, p. 184, July 13, 1878. 



394. Py-r6-cgph'-a-Ius riib-In'-g-us mex-T-ca'-nus. Gr. irDp, genitive Trvp6s, fire, Ke<paKi\, 



head. — Lat. rubinens (not classic), equivalent to rubens, ruby-colored, rose-red. 



395. Nyc-ti'-dr6-mus al-bl-col'-lls. Gr. vv^, genitive vvkt6s, night, and 5/)o>oy. act of running: 



in allusion to the nocturnal activity of the bird. See Ammodramus, No. 238. — Lat. albus, 

 white, and collis, neck. 



Not in the orig. ed. ; since discovered in Texas by G. B. Sennett, and J. C. Merrill. 



