The first record for Texas (and seventh for the ABA area) of Variegated Flycatcher Empidonomus varius - a long-distance Austral migrant overshooting its breeding grounds - from South Padre Island, Cameron county, Texas on October 01, 2016:
The image below shows the pale base to the mandible, which lacks a feathered indent seen at the base of the all-dark mandible of Piratic Flycatcher:
One structural difference between Piratic and Variegated on adult birds is the shape of the tips to the outer primaries. Variegated has a strong notch (i.e. on the inner web) on the outer primaries, which is lacking in Piratic:
