The Ash-throated Flycatcher 
ASH-THROATED FLYCATCHER 
(slightly tinged with brown) fading into much paler gray on chin, throat, and chest, 
changing to pale yellowish on breast and remaining underparts; yellow of underparts, 
strengthening posteriorly, and axillars and under wing-coverts clear (primrose) yellow, 
exposed inner edges of flight-feathers pale cinnamon. Bill blackish; feet and legs 
black; iris brown. Length of adult male about 200 (7.87); wing 100 (3.94); tail 92 
(3.63); bill 19 (.75); tarsus 23 (.91). 
Recognition Marks. —Towhee size; brownish gray above; ashy throat shading 
into pale yellow of remaining underparts; cinnamon-rufous of tail conspicuous in flight. 
Nesting. — Nest: A natural cavity or deserted flicker hole, copiously lined 
with rabbit-fur, wool, hair, or other soft materials. Eggs: 3 to 6, usually 4; buffy 
or creamy as to ground, but heavily marked, chiefly in curious lengthwise pattern, 
with streaks of chocolate of several degrees of intensity. Av. of 50 eggs in the M. C. 
O. coll.: 21.4 x 16.2 (.844 x .637). 1 Season: May 15-June 15; one brood. 
Range of Myiarchus cinerascens .—Western United States, Lower California, 
and Mexico; breeding from the Tropic of Cancer north, diminishingly, to Washington 
and northern Utah, east to central Colorado; wintering south to Guatemala. 
Range of M. c. cinerascens .—That of the species, minus the southern half of 
Lower California ( M. c. pertinax). 
