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Vol. 49 No. 2 (2018)

FIRST RECORD OF MELANISM IN A MYIARCHUS FLYCATCHER

DOI:
https://doi.org/10.21199/WB49.2.11
Submitted
September 17, 2025
Published
April 1, 2018

Abstract

On 25 May 2008, I observed an aberrantly plumaged Brown-crested Flycatcher (Myiarchus tyrannulus) at the China Ranch Date Farm near Tecopa, in southeastern Inyo County, California (35° 48´ N, 116° 11´ W). Apart from rufous flight and tail feathers, this bird was almost entirely brownish-black—see photo on the outside back cover of this issue of Western Birds.

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