Descriptions of First Plumage of Car- 
tain North Am. Bbs. Wm. Brewster. 
88. Empidonax minimus. 
First plumage: male. Similar to the adult, but with a stronger olive 
cast, and a faintly indicated collar of ashy-brown across the nape. Wing- 
bands light reddish-brown. Beneath almost precisely similar to the adult, 
with perhaps a slightly stronger yellowish cast upon the abdomen and 
crissum. Distinguishable from E. trailli and E. acadicus in corresponding 
stages by the decidedly paler and less yellowish under parts ; especially 
by the nearly clear ashy on the sides of the breast. From a specimen in 
my collection taken at Cambridge, Mass., July 2, 1872. Other specimens 
in first plumage before me differ little from the one above described, but 
autumnal specimens, singularly enough, are much yellower below and 
more olivaceous above. 
Bull, N, 0,0. 3, Oct. .1878, p, / 7 ?, 
