240 SAYOENIS SAYUS, SAy's FLYCATCHER. 



//■(t/j.— South western United States. North to the Black Hills (Ailcen); Utah 

 (McCarlhij) ; Nevada (7i'/(^/(c«//). South through Mexico. Texas to the Pacific; Capo 

 St. Lucas; Mazatlau {Graij.so'ri) ; Guatemala (f). Said by Dr. Cooper to -winter in the 

 Colorado Valley as high as Fort Mojave. 



The characters of this species, and its syuonymj^, will be found fully 

 discussed iu luy paper of 1871i, above cited. 



As in the case of rlie preceding species, Mr. Aiken again furnishes a 

 northernmo.st quotation, carrying the known range into Wyoming. It 

 had before been brought from Utah and Nevada, but its centre of abun- 

 dance in the United States appears to be somewhat further south. 

 I found it numerous iu the mountains of Arizona, there occupying the 

 place of criniius, as Cassin's does of the Arkansas Flycatcher. It is 

 there only a summer resident, arriving late in April, and remainiug 

 through most of September. Avoiding the depths of the pineries, it 

 resorts to the oak openings, brushy ravines, and the fringes of wood 

 along the streams. Its habits and manners recall those of crinitus in 

 every particular. I never found the nest, which is thus described by 

 Dr. Heermann: "The nest, found in the hollow of a tree, or in a de- 

 serted squirrel's or Woodpecker's hole, is composed of grasses lined 

 with feathers. The eggs, five in number, are cream -colored, marked 

 and speckled with purplish-red dashes and faint neutral-tint blotches." 



The species is of very general distribution in Mexico, in many places 

 associated with the resident variety of crinitus (var. cooperi of that 

 country). In the United States it is migratory, retiring to or beyond 

 our boundary iu the fall. 



SAYOENIS SAYUS, (Bp.) Bd. 

 Say's Flycatcher. 



Mvsdcapa soya, Bp., Am. Orii. i, 18-.i.'i, 20, pi. 2, tig. 3 ; Svn. 1828, 67.— Nutt., Man. i, 

 1832; 277.— AuD., Orn. Biog. iv, 1838, 428, pi. 359 ; Syn. 1839, 41 ; B. Am. i, 1840, 

 217. pi. 59. 



Tyrannula saiia, Sw. & Eicii.. F. B. A. ii, 1831, 142, pi. 45.— Bp., List, 1838, 24; Consp. 

 i, 18.50, 189.— Newb., p. E. E. Eep. vi, 1857, 81.— WooDii., Sitgr. Eep. 1853, 74. 



TliraniiKs nana, Nutt., Man. i, 1840, 311. 



TiiraniiKs .s«//((, Maxim., .J. f. O. 1858, 183. 



JMijiobins saijiis, Gkay, Genera of Birds, i, 249. 



Oclithoica sujia, Cab., Wieg. Archiv, 1847, 255. 



Aitlaiiax .w//«.v. Cab., J. f. O. 18.56, 2. 



Sayoniis Kaiius, Bd.. B. N. A. 1858, 185; Mex. Bound, ii, 1859, Birds, 9.— Kknk., P. E. E. 

 Eep. X, 1859, pt. iv, 24.— Heehm., ibid. pt. vi, 37.— Hayd., Eep. 1862, 158.— CoUES, 

 Pr. Phila. Acad. 1866, 60 (Arizona).— Allen, Bull. M. C. Z. iii, 1872, 179 (Colo- 

 rado and Wyoming). — Aikex, Pr. Bost. Soc. 1872, 205. — Stev., U. S. Geo], Surv. 

 Ter. 1870, 463.— Mehu., ibid. 1«72, 690.— CouES, Key, 1872, 172.— B. B. & E., N. 

 A. B. ii, 1874, 347, pi. 45, lig. 3. 



TheroDnjiiiH -sajii, Cab., Mas. Heiu. ii, 1859, 67 (type). 



Tijraiinula pallida, Sw., Phil. Mag. i, 1827, 367. 



Sayoritis pallidus. ScL., P. Z. S. 1857, 127, 204; 1859, 366 (Xalapa); Cat. 1862, 199 (Ori- 

 zaba).— ScL. & Salv., Ibis, 1859, 438 



Hab. — Western North America, from the high central plains to the Pacitic. North 

 to latitude 60^ {Uickard.'ion). South to Mexico. Breeds api)areutly throughout most 

 of its range (T<!xas, DitESs , Ibis, 18(i5, 473), and winters along our southern border. 



Lieuicnutii Ifarroi'ii Espediiion. — 5267, Knife Eiver; 5268, Fort Union ; 5269, Cannou- 

 ball Eiver, 8293-4, Black Hills. 



Later IJxpcdilioiis.—bm):), 60448, 60766, Wyoming; 61769, Utah. 



This is an abundant species throughout its range, in suitable places, 

 and one of the hardier birds of the family, proceeding as far north, ap- 

 parently, as any, and further tlian nu)st. It is also one of the earliest 

 migrants, in this respect agreeing with 8. /kscks of the East. From its 

 winter quarters along our southern border, in the valleys of the Colo- 



