PYROCEPHALUS. 345 
tail 1.90-2.15 (2.05), culmen .48-.50 (49), bill from nostril .25-.27 
(26), width at base .20, tarsus .52-.58 (.56). Hab. Southern Mexico. 
E. fulvifrons rubicundus (Cas. & Hurry.) Ruddy Flycatcher.! 
’. Upper parts dull grayish brown. 
Lower parts pale buff, brightening into ochraceous-buff on breast and 
anterior portion of sides. Young: Wing-bands buff (instead of 
light grayish brown or dull grayish white), the lower parts much 
paler and duller buff, without ochraceous tinge. Length about 4.75- 
5.10, wing 2.20-2.45 (2.34), tail 1.95-2.14 (2.06), culmen .50-.55 (52), 
bill from nostril .25-.27 (.26), width at base .20-.22 (.21), tarsus .51- 
60. Hab. Southern Arizona and New Mexico, south into western 
Mexico. 
470a, E. fulvifrons pygmzeus (Covss). Buff-breasted Flycatcher. 
Genus PYROCEPHALUS Goutp. (Page 327, pl. XCIL., fig. 2.) 
Species. 
Adult male: Whole top of head and entire lower parts bright scarlet; ear-cov- 
erts and upper parts (except top of head) brownish gray, the wings and tail darker 
(sometimes nearly black). Adult female: Above brownish gray, including crown; 
lower parts whitish, more or less tinged with pale red or salmon-color posteriorly, 
the breast more or less streaked with grayish. Immature male: Similar to adult 
female, but with red feathers intermixed on crown and anterior lower parts. 
Young: Above grayish, the feathers bordered with whitish; beneath whitish, 
without any reddish tinge posteriorly. Length about 5.50-6.25, wing 3.20-3.40, 
tail 2.60-2.80. West shallow and very compact, somewhat like that of Contopus 
virens. Eggs 2-3, .69 x 51, pale olive-buff or dull buffy (rarely nearly white), 
boldly and heavily spotted, chiefly in wreath round larger end, or near middle, 
with dark vandyke-brown or brownish black and purplish gray. Hab. Mexico 
and Guatemala, and north to southern border of United States (southern Texas to 
AYIZONA) oo -ceeecseceeees 471. P. rubineus mexicanus (Sct.). Vermilion Flycatcher? 
Genus ORNITHION Harrtavs. (Page 327, pl. XCV,, fig. 4.) 
Species. 
Common Cuaractrrs.—Above plain brownish gray, or olive-cray ; wings more 
dusky, the coverts tipped with light brownish gray or brownish, the tertials, sec- 
ondaries, and quills edged, more or less distinctly, with the same, the secondaries, 
however, with the basal fourth, or more, of exposed portion uniform dusky ; lower 
parts dull grayish white, or yellowish white, tinged with grayish laterally, es- 
pecially on sides of breast; sides of head light grayish, without distinct mark- 
1 Ruption rubicundus Cas. & Hern., Mus. Hein. ii. Sept. 1859, 70, foot-note. Empidonax fulvifrons 
rubicundus Ripew., Pr. Biol. Soc. Wash. ii. 1885, 109. 
2A rare melanistic plumage is uniform sepia-brown, tinged in male with wine-purple on crown and lower 
parts. This condition is comparatively frequent in the common South American form, or true P. rubineua 
(Bopp). 
