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 8 inches in length, has 

 a grayish back streaked with 



PERCHING BIRDS 



Crested Flycatcher 



Creamy buff 



black, the tail largely rusty 

 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 five eggs of a creamy buff color thickly 

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

 scratchy appearance of the Crested Flycatchers, but looking more like those of 

 a Cardinal; size of egg 1.05 x .75. 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, O. W. Howard. 



4-52. CRESTED FLYCATCHER. Myiarchns 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, but quarrelsome, species is gray- 

 ish on the head, neck, and breast, shading to greenish on 

 the back and quite abruptly into bright yellow on the 

 underparts; the head is slightly crested and the inner webs 

 of all the lateral tail feathers are reddish brown. They 

 are abundant in most of their range but are generally shy 

 so they are not as often seen as many other more rare 

 birds. They nest in cavities of any kind of trees and at 

 any elevation from the ground, the nest being made of Huff 



twigs, weeds and trash, and generally having incorporated 



into its make-up a piece of cast off snake skin. They lay from four to six 

 eggs of a buffy color, blotched and lined with dark brown and lavender. 

 Size .85 x .65. 



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