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Title: Handbook of birds of the western United States, including the great plains, great basin, Pacific slope, and lower Rio Grande valley
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Bailey, Florence Merriam, b. 1863
Subjects: Birds -- West (U.S.)
Publisher: Boston, New York, Houghton, Mifflin and company
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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tril .62-.75,tarsus .82-92. Distribution. — Lower Rio Grande Valley.south to Guatemala and Sal-vador. Nest. — In natural cavities or woodpecker holes in stumps, trees, andtelegraph poles, made of felted strips of bark, hair, feathers, wool, andsometimes snake skin. Eggs : 4 to 6, like those of M. crinitus. 453a. M. m. magister Bidgiv. Arizona Crested Flycatcher. Like M. mexica7ius, but larger. Length : 9.40-10.00, wing 4.04-4.60, tail4.10-4.60, bill from nostril .()8-.82, tarsus .97-1.02. Distribution. — Breeds from southern Arizona (and southwestern NewMexico ?) to western Mexico ; migrates to Tehuantepec, Mexico. Nest. — So far as known, in holes in giant cactus and sycamores, about8 feet from the ground, lined with hair and bits of snake and lizard skin.Eggs: 3 to 5, like those of M. crinitus. Major Bendire writes: The Arizona crested flycatcher is thelargest representative of the genus Myiarchus found within ourborders, and its breeding range seems to be confined mainly to
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ASH-THROATED FLYCATCHER FLYCATCHERS 253 the giant cactus belt of southern Arizona, where it appears to be arather irregular summer resident, not uncommon in some seasonsand rare in others. Mr, Stephens found it frequenting low mesquites, and reports thatit was tame and rather noisy, having a variety of loud calls, some. . . almost thrasher-like. 454. Myiarchus cinerascens (Lawr.). Ash-throated Fly-catcher. Adults. — Throat and chest pale ashy, sometimes almost white onthroat; belly jmle sulphur yellow ; upper parts grayish brown; wingswith two white bars, quills edged with reddish brown, tertials edged withAvhite ; tail with middle feathers dusky brown, the rest chiefly brown oninner webs ; outer tail feather with inner iceh dusky at tip, outer web dis-tinctly whitish. Young: tail feathers rufous, with dark median stripe.Length : 8.00-8.50, wing 3.80-4.25, tail 3.65-4.20, bill from nostril .52-.60,tarsus .88-.95. Distribution. — Breeds in Upper and Low^er Sonoran zones in the west

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