Perching Birds Marked With Yellow or Oranofe 



451. Sulphur-bedied Flycatcher {M^^iodynasUs lu- 

 leiventris) , L. 8. Below sulphur streaked with 

 black; tail largely rusty brown; a yellow crown-patch; 

 inner wing feathers widfly margined with whitish; 

 back grayish brown streaked with dusky. Yttg. With 

 no crown-patcli. Notes, A screech, like squeaking 

 of a wagon wheel, and a single note. (Poling.) 



Range. — Central America: breeds norlli as far as snuthprn Arizona. 



452. Created Flycatcher (Mjiarchus crinitus). L. 

 0. Inner webs of all but middle tail-featliers rust- 

 brown. Ads. Throat and breast gray, belly bright 

 sulphur; back grayish oiive-gmn; greenest above and 

 yellowest below of our larger Mjyiarchi. Notes. Loud, 

 rhiickling, grating whistles. 



Rangi' -Eastern North America: west to the Plains; breeds from 

 Finrida and Texas notiti to New Brunswirl< and Manitoba; winters 

 frnm soQtiiern Fiorida south to nonhern Souti> Amerira. 



453. Mexican Crested Flycatcher {Myiarchus mex- 

 icaniis). L. 9.2;W-4- Inner webs of all but middle 

 tail-feathers rust brown, yids. Throat and breast 

 gray, belly sulphur, both paler than i..- i^o. 452; back 

 grayish brown, with little or no green tinge. Notes. 

 Resemble those of No. 452. (iWerrill.) 



Range. — Central America; breeds nnrth as far as Lower Rio Grande. 

 Texas. 



453a. Arizona Crested Flycatcher {M. m. magis- 

 ier). Similar to No. 453, but larger, L. 9.4, W. 4.2, 

 and averaging slightly paler. 



Range.— "Western Mexico ; north to southern Arizona and south- 

 west New Mexico; south in winter to Tehuantepec, Mexico," 



454. Ash-throated Flycatcher [Myiarchus dneras- 

 eens). L. 8.; W. 4- Inner webs of all but middle 

 tail-feathers rust-brown, outer pair dusky at tip of 

 inner web. Ads, Throat and breast pale grayish 

 white, belly white tinged with yellow, above grayish 

 brown, outer web of outer tail-feather whitish. Palest 

 below of our Myiarchi. Notes. A rather resonant but 

 wooden chuck-fir-r-r-r. 



Range.— We 5tprr United States: breeds from western Texas and 

 lowerCaiifornia north to r.oioradoand Oregon; winters in southern 

 MeKlco and Central America. 



454a. Nutting Flycatcher [M. c nuttingi). Simi- 

 lar to No. 454, but smaller, W. 3.6, outer margin of 

 outer tail-feather not whitish, tip of its inner web 

 rusty, not dusky. 



Range.— Breeds In southern Arizona and western Mexico; winters 

 n Central America. 



454b. Lower California ¥\yo2tt<i\\%v [M. c. pertinax) . 



Similar to Nu. 454a, but bill larger and stouter; above 

 grayer; below less yellow. (Brewster.) 



Range.— Lower California. 



455a. Olivaceous Flycatcher {Mj-iarchtis lawrencit 

 olivascens). L. 7. Ads. Inner webs of tail-feathers 

 like outer webs; tail-feathers margined with rusty; 

 breast and belly as in No. 452; crown brownish, back 

 grayish olive-green. Notes. A short mournful peeur. 



Range. — Breeds from western Mexico north to southern Arlcona; 

 vlnters south to southern Mejtl^o; ^adUaJ In CoiOi'Ado. 



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