. A history of North American birds [microform] : land birds. Birds -- North America; Ornithology -- North American; Oiseaux -- Amérique du Nord; Ornithologie -- Amérique du Nord. IIIK FLVCATCUKKS. 341 Sp. Char. WIiil'-s nMindcd ; sj-conil, third, uml fourth h^iij^est; first rather shorter than sixtiu Tarsi with a M' row of M.'al«'s ImIiIikK The hi-ad and neck all round, forepart and sides of the hrejvst, dark >ooty-bro\vn; the rest of the upjur parts similar, out n«rhter ; faintly tinired with lead-color towards the tail. The middle of the hreast, ahdoinen, and lower tail-
. A history of North American birds [microform] : land birds. Birds -- North America; Ornithology -- North American; Oiseaux -- Amérique du Nord; Ornithologie -- Amérique du Nord. IIIK FLVCATCUKKS. 341 Sp. Char. WIiil'-s nMindcd ; sj-conil, third, uml fourth h^iij^est; first rather shorter than sixtiu Tarsi with a M' row of M.'al«'s ImIiIikK The hi-ad and neck all round, forepart and sides of the hrejvst, dark >ooty-bro\vn; the rest of the upjur parts similar, out n«rhter ; faintly tinired with lead-color towards the tail. The middle of the hreast, ahdoinen, and lower tail- coverts w hite ; some of tiie latter, with the shafts and the eentie, brown. Till' lower win^ ^'rayish- hrown, edired with white. Wintra dark brown ; the edjres of sccontlary coverts rather lighter; of primary coverts dull white. Edge of the exterior vane of the first primary and of secondaries white. Tail dark. Snyurnis nie^leani. brown, with the greater part of the outer vane of the exterior tail-feather white; this color narrowing from the base to the tip. Bill and feet black. The tail rounded, rather cmarginate; feathers broad; more obliquely truncate than in sayns. The bill slender; similar to that of (sriis. Length, nearly 7 inches; wing, ; tail, Had. California coast (I'mpcjua Valley, Oregon, Newberry), and across by valley of Gila and Upper Ilio Grantle to New Leon, and south; Mazatlan. Oaxaca (Scl. 1859, 383) ; Cordova (Scl. \8')(\ 20G); Vera Cruz, temj). and alp. regions, breeding (Sum. M. B. Soc. T, .V)7) ; W.*Arizona (Coles, P. A. N. S., 18GG, CO). The female appears to differ only in the smaller size. A yonnjr bird from San Francisco has two bands of rusty on the wing; the shoulders and hinder part of the back tinged with the same. • Within our limits tlie Black Flycatcher has a distribution very nearly corresponding with that of Mi/iarchus chicrascnis. It is found from Oregon and California on the Pacific coast, to the val
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