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18 1. Empidonax wria^hti Baird. 



Wright Flycatcher. 



Synonym — Empidonax obscunis^ part. 



Status — A fairly common migrant, at least in eastern Arizona. I know of 

 no authentic instance of the breeding of this species in the state. 



182. Empidonax griseus Brewster. 



Gray Flycatcher. 



Synonyms — Empidonax obsciiriiSj part; Empidonax zvrightii, part. 



Status — This species and the last (£. zvrightii) have been so hopelessly con- 

 fused in years past that it is impossible to allocate the various citations Avith ac- 

 curacy, but it is certain that £. grisciis has been many times mentioned under the 

 name of the allied species. Both are migrants in >\rizona, and both probably oc- 

 cur (E, grisetis certainly) across the breadth of the state. Of neither form, how- 

 ever, is there any undoubted breeding record for Arizona. £. griscns is prob- 

 ably to be found in winter in the wanner parts of southern Arizona, and along 

 the lower Colorado River. 



183. Empidonax fulvifrons pygmaeiis Coues. 



Bui^r'-BREASTED Flycatcher. 



Synonyms — Empidonax pygmaeiis; Mitre phor us pallcscens ; Mitrcphonis 

 fidvifrons var. pallescens. 



Status — A summer visitant, nowhere very common, but found in several of 

 the mountain ranges of southeastern Arizc^na. It breec^s mostly at the lov^^er edge 

 of the Transition zone, but is very locally distributed — thus it may be fairly com- 

 mon in one canon, and almost unknown in an adjoining one. Has been 

 found breeding in the Chiricahua, Huachuca, and Santa Rita mountains, and mi- 

 grating birds have been taken at Forts Apache and Bowie. The subspecies was 

 described from a specimen secured by Coues at Fort Whipple, which would seem 

 to be its extreme northern limit. It has so far not been found in the Mogollon 

 Mountains, which lie south of that point, but the fact of its breeding at Inscription 

 Rock, New Mexico — close to the Arizona boundary (Henshaw, 1874, p. 12S), 

 points to the probability of its doing so in the Mogollons. 



184. Pyrocephalus rubinus mexicanus Sclater. 



Vermilion Flycatcher. 



Synonyms— Pyrocephalus ruhinens ; Pyroccplialus mexicanus. 

 Status — An abundant resident along the wooded streams of southern and 

 western Arizona, locally migratory, but occurrmg in the warmer parts of the re- 

 gion throughout the year. In a general way it may be said to be restricted to the 

 Lower Sonoran zone in the valleys of the Colorado and Gila rivers, and their 

 tributaries. In central Arizona it extends north to Fort Vei-de (Coale, 1894, p. 

 218) ; casually to Fort Whipple (Coues, 1865, PP- 163, 538, i specimen) ; along the 

 Colorado River, to the Big Sandy, Bill Williams River, and Ehrenberg (Stephens, 

 1903, p. 102), casually to Fort Mohave (Cooper, 1870, p. 333; one seen May 24). 

 In eastern Arizona does not range north of the Salt River. 



