. A history of North American birds [microform] : land birds. Birds -- North America; Ornithology -- North American; Oiseaux -- Amérique du Nord; Ornithologie -- Amérique du Nord. :]G0 NOliTll AMERICAN BIRDS. Empidonax pusiUus, Cabanis. UTTLE FLTCATCHEB. ' Piafftrhiftu'hus pusilJus, Swaixsun, Pliil. Mag. I, May, 1}^27, 366. Tijrannu/u pusilla, Snv, V. 15. Am. 11, 1S31, 144, pi. — liicn. X\^\K Hack's , 1834 3»), 144.— :!., Vv. A. N. Sc. Ill, 1847, 156. Musriaipn pusilla, Ari». Orn. Hiog. V, 1831), 288 ; J)!. cccLXXxiv. In. \n\. I, 184(», 'J^ti, \A. Ixvi. Tiiranututpusilla,
. A history of North American birds [microform] : land birds. Birds -- North America; Ornithology -- North American; Oiseaux -- Amérique du Nord; Ornithologie -- Amérique du Nord. :]G0 NOliTll AMERICAN BIRDS. Empidonax pusiUus, Cabanis. UTTLE FLTCATCHEB. ' Piafftrhiftu'hus pusilJus, Swaixsun, Pliil. Mag. I, May, 1}^27, 366. Tijrannu/u pusilla, Snv, V. 15. Am. 11, 1S31, 144, pi. — liicn. X\^\K Hack's , 1834 3»), 144.— :!., Vv. A. N. Sc. Ill, 1847, 156. Musriaipn pusilla, Ari». Orn. Hiog. V, 1831), 288 ; J)!. cccLXXxiv. In. \n\. I, 184(», 'J^ti, \A. Ixvi. Tiiranututpusilla, Nrr- lALL, Man. I, fjtl I'll.,) 184U. Kinjndoiiaj' pusillus, lUinD, IJinls X. .\m. 1858, rJ4. CooPEii k SucKLEY, 176. — , C'utul. 1862, 22y. Emjiiduiuu trailU, CooPKU, Orn. rul. I, 1870, 327 (Colorado Kiver). Sp. Char. Second, third, uud fourth (luills lonfrest; first shorter than tlio IJill rather broad ; yellow liciieath. Tail even. Tarsi rather long. Above dirty olive-brown, paler and more tinged with biown towards the tail. Throat and breast white, tinged witii grayish-olive on the sides, shading across tlii' iireast; belly and under tail-eoverts very })ale sulphur-yellow. Wings with two dirty narrow brownish-white l)ands slightly tinged with olive; the seeondaries and tcrtials narrowly and inconspicuously margined with the same. First primary liiintly edged with whitish ; the outer web of lirst tail-feather paler than the inner, but not white. Under wing-coverts red- dish ochraceous-vellow. A whiti>h rineing thus less greenish and less uniform in tint ; the Itrownish shade across the breast is lighter and more ashy, and the yellow tinge posteriorly beneath more hiint; the wing-bands ligliter and more grayish. In color, 2>i(silh'x thus a]>proximates somewhat to £. mininm.^, which, however, is a very distinct si)ecies, and more closely related to F. hammondi; )ninimi(s may be distinguislied by much smaller size (the liill especially), th
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