"Answer"
This bird is clearly a myiarchus
flycatcher, as indicated in the original quiz description. Since
we can't see the front of the bird, it's reasonable to assume
that we can identify the bird solely from the back, presumably
from the rectrices. On first blush, the reddish on the rectrices
appears to extend all the way to the tail. However, the outermost
rectrice on the left side of the tail shows, in fact, that the
brown curves prominently around the bottom of the tail, despite
the wear at the tip which might suggest that the red extends
all the way to the tip. Not even NUTTING'S FLYCATCHER shows this
much curvature of the brown at the base of the tail; all other
myiarchus flycatchers have little to no curvature.
This ASH-THROATED FLYCATCHER was photographed in the fall of
1999 north of the Skyline Grove at Fort Funston.
Last updated 24 November, 1999