172 TYRANNIDZ, FLYCATCHERS.—GEN. 107. 
the species may be properly put together, as they agree in presenting a certain 
aspect not shown by the other North American groups. Fig. 1130. 
Say’s Flycatcher. Grayish-brown, paler below and changing to cinna- 
mon on the belly and crissum ; wings dusky with paler edgings on the inner 
quills and coverts ; tail perfectly black; bill and feet black. Younger birds 
are much more extensively fulvous or paler cinnamon than the old, this color 
extending far up the breast, skirting the feathers of the back and rump, 
forming conspicuous crossbars and edging on the wings, and sometimes 
tipping the tail. 7 or 8 inches long; wing 4; tail 84, emarginate. West- 
ern America, in open country, common. Norv., i, 277; Aup., i, 217, 
pli59} (Bp 1855eCoorss 3200 5 eee eg. ye) We are gana 
Black Flycatcher. Sooty-brown, deepest on head and breast, belly and 
crissum abruptly pure white; lining of wings and edging of outer tail 
feather and inner quills, whitish; bill and feet black; “iris red ;” about 7; 
wing 33; tail 34. Southwestern United States and southward, in unwooded 
country, caiions, and along rocky streams. Nurrv., i, 2d ed. 311; Aup., i, 
217 > pl. 59s Bp.;, 185.3 ‘Coop:, 320%...) 2s Sg ie SERGIO 
Pewee. Pewit. Phebe. Dull olivaceous-brown, the head much darker 
fuscous-brown, almost blackish, usually in marked contrast with the back ; 
below soiled whitish, or palest possible yellow, particularly on the belly ; the 
sides, and the breast nearly or quite 
across, shaded with grayish-brown; 
wings and tail dusky, the outer tail 
feather, inner secondaries, and usually 
the wing coverts, edged with whitish ; 
a whitish ring round the eye; bill 
and feet black. Varies greatly in 
shade; the foregoing is the average 
spring condition. As summer passes, 
the plumage becomes much duller and 
darker brown, from wearing of the 
feathers, and then, after the moult, 
fall specimens are much brighter than 
in spring, the under parts being fre- 
quently decidedly yellow, at least on 
the belly. Very young birds have 
some feathers skirted with rusty, par- 
2 3 
ticularly on the edges of the wing and 
ag pee are epaller tail feathers. The species requires 
careful discrimination, in the hands of a novice, from any of the little oliva- 
ceous species of the next two genera. It is larger; 63-7; wing 3-3$; tail 
about the same, slightly emarginate ; bill 4 or slightly more, little depressed, 
not so broad for its length as is usual in Contopus and Hmpidonaz, its lateral 
outlines straight ; tarsus equalling or slightly exceeding the middle toe and 
claw, these together about 14 long; point of the wing formed by the 2d to 
