278 Birds of Colorado 
In Colorado, Wright’s Flycatcher is a fairly common summer resident, 
especially in the mountains ; it is probably only a migrant in the plains. 
It has been recorded from Estes Park (Kellogg); Boulder co., breeding 
at 10,000 feet (Gale); Denver, May 12th to 17th (Henshaw) ; Idaho 
Springs (Trippe) ; Breckenridge (Carter) ; Twin Lakes (Scott); South 
Park, breeding (Allen) ; Crested Butte, Gunnison co., breeding 8,800 
feet (Warren); El Paso and Lincoln cos. (Aiken); Wet Mountains 
(Lowe); Fort Garland 7,000 feet (Henshaw), Mesa co., 7,000 to 9,000 
feet, common (Rockwell), and Silverton, breeding (Anthony apud 
Bendire). The earliest date for arrival in El Paso co. is May 5th. 
Habits.—Like the Hammond Flycatcher, this species 
is shy and retiring, concealing itself in the thick willow 
and alder bushes along the courses of mountain streams, 
and seldom venturing forth on to the mountain sides. 
Dennis Gale found a nest containing four eggs on July 
22nd, in Boulder co. It was built in thick spruce-bush, 
about thirty inches from the ground. Warren found 
three nests in the summer of 1900, near Crested Butte ; 
they were all largely constructed of fibre from the imner 
bark of dead aspen trees, and were placed in bushes 
four to six feet above the ground. 
The eggs are dull white and unspotted ; they average 
"68 x 52. 
Gray Flycatcher. Hmpidonax griseus. 
A.O.U. Checklist no 469.1—Colorado Record—Ridgway 01 pt. iv., 
p. 571. 
Description. Resembling H. wrighti, but much greyer above (with 
hardly any trace of olive) as well as below; wing averaging longer, 
tail shorter and bill narrower; lower mandible very pale (pinkish in 
life) with a dusky tip; tail emarginate, tenth primary about equal to 
the fourth. Length 5-25 ; wing 2-85 ; tail 2-30 ; culmen -50; tarsus -70. 
Distribution.— Breeding from southern California to southern New 
Mexico and the highlands of northern Mexico; in winter to Lower 
California. 
This bird is only an accidental straggler in Colorado; Ridgway 
records an example taken at Newcastle on the Grand River on May 
24th, while a Flycatcher in the Aiken collection taken by Mr. Aiken, 
May 3rd, 1872, near Fountain in El Paso co., appears to be undoubtedy 
referable to this species. 
