. A history of North American birds [microform] : land birds. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. 386 NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS, Mitrephorus falvifrons, var. pallescens, Coues. BUFF-BREASTED LEAST FLTCATCHEB. Mitreplwruspallescens, CoUKs, Pr. Pliilatl. Ac. 18fi6, 63 (Fort Whipple, Arizona). —CooPEii, Oni. Calif. I, 334. Milrcpkorusfidcifruiis, Elliot, lUust. B. Am. I, pi. xix. Sp. !. Above I'lilvo-is-gniy, wiLh an cast on the tail and crown; lighter acro.«s the nape. Two giiiyish-wliite hands across the wings, and the terminal half of the .secondaries and outer web of lateral tai
. A history of North American birds [microform] : land birds. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. 386 NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS, Mitrephorus falvifrons, var. pallescens, Coues. BUFF-BREASTED LEAST FLTCATCHEB. Mitreplwruspallescens, CoUKs, Pr. Pliilatl. Ac. 18fi6, 63 (Fort Whipple, Arizona). —CooPEii, Oni. Calif. I, 334. Milrcpkorusfidcifruiis, Elliot, lUust. B. Am. I, pi. xix. Sp. !. Above I'lilvo-is-gniy, wiLh an cast on the tail and crown; lighter acro.«s the nape. Two giiiyish-wliite hands across the wings, and the terminal half of the .secondaries and outer web of lateral tail-leather broadly edged with the same. AVhole lower part,s inchiding the lores and cheeks, and lining of wing, light ochraccoiis, very deeply ochraceous across the breast and on the sides, nearly white on the abdomen and erissum. Upper mandible deep black, lower whitish ("bright orange-yellow" in life); feet dccj) black. Wing-formula : second, third, and fourth quills equal and longest, 5, 0, l! Tail very slightly emarginated, but lateral feather a little the shortest. Male. Length, ; wing. ; tail, ; culmen, .r)4 (measured to concealed ) ; breadth of bill, .24 ; tarsus, .54; middle toe, .28. Female. Colors paler ; deep ochraceous of breast, etc., less distinct. Hab. Southern border of Middle Province of United States (Fort Whipple, Arizona). The true M. fulvifi-ons of differs simply in deeper colors, the shade above being decidedly fulvous, instead of grayish, and the lower parts much more deeply , the abdomen not approaching white; the wing-markings are also tinged witli ochraceous. Tliis species, both new to our fauna and previously undescribed, was taken by Dr. Coues at Fort Wliipple. It belongs to a newly established genus of Flycatcliers, recently established by Mr. Sclater, similar to Empido- nax. So far as known, its members are more or less tropical in their resi- dence. It is a rare siuumer resident at Fort AVh
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