THE GRAY FLYCATCHER. 321 



bii-il than Wright's Flycatcher, and appears to replace this in the regions wliere 

 it is found. Nothing is as yet known about its breeding habits, nest, or eggs. 

 It has been taken at Triunfo, San Jose del Cabo, and on Santa Margarita Island, 

 Lower California, at Alamos, in southern Sonora, and it probably also occurs 

 in tho mountains of southern Arizona. 



iig. Empidonax fulvifrons (Giraud). 



FULVOUS FLYCATCHER. 



Musclmpa fulrifrons GiRAUD, Sixteen Texas Birds, 1841, PI. II. 

 Empidonax fulvifrons ScLATEK, Proceedings Zoological Society, 1858, 301. 



(B — , C — , R 329, C — , U [470 1.) 



Geographical range : Easteru Mexico and southern Texas. 



Since Giraud's description of the Fulvous Flycatcher, in his paper t>n 

 "Sixteen Texas Bu-ds," published in 1841, no other specunens, as far as I have 

 been able to learn, have been taken either in eastern Mexico or along our south- 

 ern border, in the lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas. The type still remains 

 unique, and nothing is known about its nesting habits. 



120. Empidonax fulvifrons pygmaeus (Coues). 



BUFF-BREASTED FLYCATCHER. 



Empidonax pygnuvus Coitks, Ibis, 1865, 537. 



Empidonax fulrifrons pyyma'us RiDGWAY, Proceedings IT. S. National Mnseum, VIII, 

 1885, 350. 



(B — , C 202, R 329rt, C 392, U 470«.) 



Geographical ran(;e: Northern Mexico; north to southwestern New Mexico and 

 Arizona. 



The breeding range of the Buff-bi-easted Flycatcher appears to extend 

 through northern Mexico northward into southwestern New Mexico and the 

 southeiTi half of Arizona. This subspecies was first added to our fauna by Dr. 

 Elliott Coues, who obtained it near Fort Whipple, Arizona, on May 9, 1865, 

 which point probably mai'ks the northern limits of its range in the United 

 States. Since then it has been taken near Inscription Rock, New Mexico, and 

 at Camp Apache, Arizona, by Mr. H. W. Henshaw, who published the following: 

 "Ap})arently a very rare species, as it was met with on but two occasions. At 

 Inscription Rock, New Mexico, July 24, 1873, I observed a pair of old birds 

 feeding, the young. These latter were nearly full fledged and had evidently 

 been raised in the immediate vicinity. In Sei)teml)er a single in^mature Ijird 

 was taken near Camp Apache, Arizona, on a small brush-lhied stream in a heavy 

 pine forest. Judging from the individuals seen, their habits difier in no note- 

 worthy respect from those of the small Flycatchers generally. * * * 



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