TYRAXXID.K — THE FLYCATCHERS. 





odcros. Loncrth aboiit 8.(10 ; winir. 4.1.' ; tail, H 00 ; depth of its fork. ..1') ; rultnon, .H'J ; 

 tarsus, .70. Kietal luistU-s loii-r. altout half the liill ; lnucr inaiulil-le whitish. Vninn/. 

 Siiuihir, but with a strono:*.'!- ochraccoiis tiiitro 011 tlio alidomen and hiiiiij,' of the wiiij^s, 

 and two (hstinet ochraeeoiis bands acioss tho win<,^ 



Hah. Mcxito Lrencrally. into southern bonh-rs of United States (Fort Whipple, 

 Arizona; Dr. Corns). 



Habits. Dr. C'onos foiiiKl this specios a rare summer residiMit at Fort 

 AVliipple, where a siiii^de spuciiiieii was taken Aumist 20, ill good ])liiiuai;e. 

 This was its tirst introiliiction into the fauna of the United States. It is one 

 of several Me.xic'an and [RMiiusuhir hirds found in Upper Arizona, prohaMy 

 followinu' ll'O .>r"S'^ of the vaUey of the Great Colorado Iiiver. No o])serva- 

 tions were .i^^.do ' t r"< -ence to its hahits. 



This speeics i.«. b ,.ivl it in the Department of Vera Cruz, accordin<^' to 

 Mr. Sumichrast, ,v]io ' > ^"- it as confined to the aljnne re«;ion. lie found 

 both it aiul C. rirrns common in the mountains of Orizaba, between the 

 heiglit of 3,600 and 7,500 feet. 



Contopus virens, rAB.\NTi=5. 



WOOD FEWEE. 



Muscicnpn rircm, LiNN. Syst. Nat. I, 176(5, .*?27. — Omkliv, Sy.st. Xat. I, 17SS, 036.— 

 L.VTHAM, index Orn. — Lieiir. Verz. lS-23. .''>63. — NrxTALL, Man. 1, 18:?2, L'S.'i. — 

 / ■.. Orn. IJio^'. H, 1834, lt3 ; V, 183J», 425, pi. cxv. — In. Synopsis, 1839, 42. — Ib. 

 Hirds Am. 1,1840,231, pi. l.xiv. — (iiu.vrn. Birds L. Island, 1^44, 43. Musrirapn 

 qucrula, VlKlM.oT, Ois. An». Sept. I, 1807, 68, \\. xxxix (not of Wil.sos). Miisciiri/)'> 

 rajxi.r, Wilson, Am. Orn. II, \>\i\ 81, \)\. xiii, f. o. Tijrdnnahi n'rina, Um'h. App. 

 Back's VoyaLje. — Bonat. last. 1838. Mijiohiua viirns, Oiiay. T/iritniiKM rirrii.t, 

 NlTTALL, Man. 1, (2d eu.,) 1840, 316. Confnpus vireti.% Cauanis, Journal tiir Or- 

 nitholo<,de, III, Nov. 1855, 479. — Bau;!), Birds N. Am. 1S58, 190. — Sclatek, Catal. 

 1862, 231. --Saml'KLs, 137. 



Sp. CnAU. The seeond q. '' lon<rest; the third a little shorter ; the fir.«;t .«;hortcr than 

 the fourth ; the V .er nearly .40 lonirer than the lifth. The primaries more than an inch 

 longer than the secondaries. The upper parts, sides of the head, neck, and breast, <lark 

 olivaceous-brown, the latter rather paler, the head darker. A narrow white rins: round 

 the oye. The lower parts pale yellowish, deepet on the abdomen; across the breast 

 tinired with ash. This pale ash sometimt's occupies the whol«» of the breast, and even 

 ocerusionally extends up to the chin. It is als(^ sometimes ijlossed with olivaceous. Tlu> 

 winirs and tail dark brown; prenerally de<'per than in S. fiiscus. Two narrow bands 

 across the wiuix. the outer edge of lirst j)riniary and of the secor aries and tertials. dull 

 white. The edues of the tail-feathers like the back; the outer one scarctdy liiriiter. 

 Uj)per mandilile black ; the lower yellow, but brown at the tip. Length, 6.15; wing, 

 3.50 ; tail, ;5.()5. 



IIah. Iv. >tern North America to the ho\ -rs of the high Central Plains. Localities: 

 ? Guatemala (>^cr.. Ibis, 1. \'2'2) : Mexico (Sn.. Ibis, L 441): Cuba ? (('.xn. .1. HI. 47?); 

 GrxDL. Rep. 1S(J."), L'.*,!)): Costa Kica (Cah. J. ISCl. 248; Lawr. IX. llo): Coban (8cl. 

 List) ; Vera Cruz, alpine r<>irion, lirceds (Sim. M. Vc -. .^c-c. I, 537) ; San xVntonio, Texas 

 and Eastern Texas (Dukssk Il)is, 1805, 474, breed;:... 



