Wright’s Flycatcher 277 
Distribution.—Breeding in the mountains of Colorado and California, 
north to south-east Alaska; south in winter through Mexico to 
Guatemala. 
Hammond’s Flycatcher is a rather uncommon summer resident in 
the mountains of Colorado, and does not occur in the plains except on 
migration. It has been recorded as follows: Gold Hill, Boulder co., 
breeding 10,000 feet (Gale) ; Idaho Springs, 7,500 feet (Trippe), Dillon, 
breeding at 9,000 feet (Carter), Pikes Peak and Turkey Creek, El Paso 
co. and Fremont co., May 23rd (Aiken), Pueblo (Beckham), Salida, 
May 21st (Frey), La Plata co., breeding (Gilman). 
Habits.—This ig a silent and retiring bird of very 
different disposition from its nearest relative, the Least 
Flycatcher ; it affects the glens and recesses of the 
mountains, and is to be met with in the alder bushes 
along alpine streams. From time to time it makes a 
dart at a passing insect, and quickly returns to its perch. 
Dennis Gale found a nest at Gold Hill, on 27th June ; 
it was saddled on the horizontal arm of a spruce, about 
fourteen feet from the ground, and three feet from the 
trunk ; the nest was solidly constructed with an outer 
covering of old weed-stems, bark, etc., etc., and lined 
within with fine bark, hair and a few feathers ; the eggs, 
four in number, are creamy-white and _ generally 
unspotted ; they measure ‘66 x ‘51. 
Wright’s Flycatcher. Hmpidonax wrighti. 
A.O.U. Checklist no 469—Colorado Records—Allen 72, pp. 151, 
158 (H. obscurus); Trippe 74, p. 258; Henshaw 75, p. 360; Scott 79, 
p. 95; Tresz 81, p. 183; Allen & Brewster 83, p. 195; Drew 85, p. 17; 
Morrison 89, p. 147; Kellogg 90, p. 90; Bendire 92, p. 318 (£. 
wrightt); Lowe 94, p. 268; McGregor 97, p. 38; Cooke 97 pp. 89, 
209; Henderson 03, p. 107; 09, p. 233; Rockwell 08, p. 167. 
Description.—Very similar to EZ. hammondi, but distinctly a larger 
bird, though the wing is proportionately shorter; bill much longer ; 
tail and tarsus longer; the outer (tenth) primary shorter than the 
fifth; ashy wash on breast slightly paler and less extended; lower 
mandible generally dark brown, but varying; tail emarginate. Length 
5-25; wing 2-75; tail 2-40; culmen -52; tarsus -69. 
Distribution.—Breeding in the Rocky Mountains from Montana and 
Oregon to Arizona and New Mexico; in winter to southern California 
and Mexico as far south as the State of Oaxaca. 
