. The birds of California : a complete, scientific and popular account of the 580 species and subspecies of birds found in the state. Birds; Birds. The Western Flycatcher and legs brownish dusky; iris brown. Young birds are browner above and paler below; wing-bars cinnamon- burly (and not certainly dis- tinguishable in color from young of E. trailli brewsteri). Length ( ); wing 67 (); tail 57 (); bill 12 (.47); width at nostril (.21); tarsus 17 (.67). Recognition Marks.— Warbler size; characterized by pervading yellowness. Adults always more yellow than E. traill
. The birds of California : a complete, scientific and popular account of the 580 species and subspecies of birds found in the state. Birds; Birds. The Western Flycatcher and legs brownish dusky; iris brown. Young birds are browner above and paler below; wing-bars cinnamon- burly (and not certainly dis- tinguishable in color from young of E. trailli brewsteri). Length ( ); wing 67 (); tail 57 (); bill 12 (.47); width at nostril (.21); tarsus 17 (.67). Recognition Marks.— Warbler size; characterized by pervading yellowness. Adults always more yellow than E. trailli brewsteri, from which it is not otherwise cer- tainly distinguishable (save by note). Note: a soft pis- wit; a woodland recluse. Really the easiest, because the most common of this difficult group. Nesting. — Nest: Chiefly of moss, lined with fine bark-strips, rootlets, or fine grasses; placed in any convenient cranny, but chiefly in well-sheltered niches of banks or upturned tree-roots, or broken stubs near streams. Eggs: 3 or 4, rarely 5; pale creamy white, or buffy, spotted and marked, chiefly in loose wreath, or rarely blotched with light reddish brown (pecan-brown to mikado brown, or onion-skin pink to orange- cinnamon). Av. size x (-66 x .51). Season: April-June; one or two broods. Range of Empidonax difficilis.—Western North America south to southern Mexico. Range of E. d. difficilis.—Breeds from southeastern Alaska (Glacier Bay), southeastern British Columbia, Montana, and the Black Hills in Dakota, south to western Texas and southern California; winters in Mexico. Distribution in California.—Early migrant nearly throughout the State. Common summer resident in Upper Sonoran and Transition zones, chiefly west of the Sierran divide. Only records of occurrence in summer east of the Sierran divide. WESTERN FLYCATCHER 879. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - colora
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