Scarlet Flycatcher

Pyrocephalus rubinus (Boddaert)

Previously reported as a victim of the brown-headed cowbird a small number of times in Texas, Arizona, and California, the vermilion flycatcher has recently been found to be parasitized at Red-rock, Gila Valley, southwestern New Mexico (Hubbard, 1971:25), where, on 13 June 1968, a male vermilion flycatcher was watched repeatedly feeding a recently fledged young brown-headed cowbird. In addition to this record, 3 others—2 of them from Imperial County, California, and 1 from Huachuca Plains, Arizona—are in the collections of the Western Foundation, and 2 from Tucson, Arizona, are in the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. All the records from southwestern New Mexico west to California involve the host race Prubinus flammeus and the cowbird subspecies M. ater obscurus.

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