Color Key to North American Birds — Part 142

=443. Scissor-tailed Flycatcher= (_Muscivora forficata_). L. 14.5. _Ad._ [Male]. Above gray, back washed with red or yellow; crown-patch red. _Ad._ [Female]. Similar, but tail shorter, red less bright, back grayer. _Notes._ Loud, harsh, chattering notes uttered on the wing.

Range.--Central America and Mexico; breeds through Texas north to southern Kansas and western Louisiana, and winters south to Central America: accidental in Florida and as far north as Connecticut and Hudson Bay.

=471. Vermilion Flycatcher= (_Pyrocephalus rubineus mexicanus_). L. 6. _Ad._ [Male]. Crown and underparts red; back grayish brown. _Ad._ [Female]. Above brownish, below white, breast streaked with dusky, belly red or yellow. _Yng._ [Male]. Similar to [Female] but spotted with red below and on crown. _Notes._ A shrill _zi-bréé_, _zi-bréé_, uttered while the bird hovers twenty or thirty feet up in the air. (Bendire.)

Range.--Central America and Mexico, breeding north to southern Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, southwestern Utah (rarely); "winter visitant to southern California." (Grinnell.)

=688. Painted Redstart= (_Setophaga picta_). L. 5.4. _Ads._ Black; center of breast and belly deep red, patch in wings and outer tail-feathers white.

Range--Mexican Plateau north to southwest New Mexico and Arizona.

=690. Red-faced Warbler= (_Cardellina rubrifrons_). L. 5.2. _Ads._ Forehead, face, throat and sides of neck red, crown and ear-coverts black, nape band and rump whitish; back gray; no white in wings or tail. _Notes._ A prolonged, very clear, whistled song. (Scott.)

Range.--From Guatemala north over the Mexican Plateau to southern Arizona and western New Mexico.

=498. Red-winged Blackbird= (_Agelaius phœniceus_). L. [Male], 9.5; W. 4.7; B. .88; depth at base, .5. _Ad._ [Male]. Black, in winter more or less tipped with rusty; lesser wing-coverts scarlet; median wing-coverts buff, tips in summer whitish. _Ad._ [Female]. Above brownish black, widely margined with buffy and rusty; below whitish heavily streaked with black; throat tinged with orange or yellow; lesser wing-coverts tinged with red. _Yng._ [Male]. Similar to _Ad._ [Male], but heavily margined with rusty above and less so below; lesser wing-coverts duller and narrowly edged with black. _Notes._ Call, _chût_, _chûck_, a reedy _cack_; song, a chorus song, a liquid _kong-quĕr-rēē_; alarm note a shrill _chee-e-e-e-e_. The notes of this species are subject to much variation with locality, but I find it impossible to express on paper differences perfectly apparent when heard.