240 SAYOENIS SAYUS, SAY's FLYCATCHER. 



-HaJ.— Southwestern United States. North to the Black Hills {AHen); Utah 

 (MoCarthy); THeyaHa. (Riclgway). South through Mexico. Texas to the Pacific; Cape 

 St. Lucas ; Mazatlan {Grayson) ; Guatemala (?). Said by Dr. Cooper to winter in the 

 Colorado Valley as high as Fort Mojave. 



The characters of this species, and its synonymy, -will be found fully 

 discussed in my paper of 1872, above cited. 



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

 northernmost quotation, carrying the known range into Wyoming. It 

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

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

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

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

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

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

 resorts to the oak openings, brushj' ravines, and the fringes of wood 

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

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

 Dr. Heermanu : "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 in the fall. 



SAYOENIS SAYUS, (Bp.) Bd. 

 Say's Flycatcher. 



Museicapa saya, Bp., Am. Orn. i, 18'2.'j, 20, pi. 2, fig. 3 ; Syn. 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 saya, Sw. & KiCH., F. B. A. ii, 1831, 149, pi. 45.— Bp., List, 1838, 24; Consp. 

 i, 1850, 189.— Nbwb., P. R. R. Rep. vi, 1857, 81.— WOODH., Sitgr. Rep. 1853, 74. 



Tijranniis saya, NuTT., Mau. i, 1840, 311. 



Tyrannus sayii, Maxim., J. f. O. 1858, 183. 



Myiobius sayus, Gkay, Genera of Birds, i, 249. 



Ochthoeca saya, Cab., Wieg. Archiv, 1847, 255. 



Aulanax sayus. Cab., J. f. O. 1856, 2. 



Sayonds sayus, Bd., B. X. A.. 1858, 185 ; Mex. Bound, ii, 1859, Birds, 9.— Kenn., P. R. E. 

 Rep. X, 1859, pt. iv, 24.— Heerm., ifcid. pt. vi, 37.— Hayd., Rep. 1862, 158.— Cooes, 

 Pr. Phila. Acad. 1868, 60 (Arizona).— Allen, Bull. M. C. Z. iii, 1872, 179 (Colo- 

 rado and Wyoming).— AlKEX, Pr. Bost. Soc. 1872, 205.— Stev., U. S. Geol. Surv. 

 Ter. 1870, 463.— Merr., ibid. 1«72, 690.— CoHES, Key, 1872, 172.— B. B. &, R., N. 

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



Theromyias sayi. Cab., J^us. Hein. ii, 1859, 67 (type). 



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



Sayomis palUdus. Scl., P. Z. S. 1857, 127, 204 ; 1859, 366 (Xalapa) ; Cat. 1862, 199 (Ori- 

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



Hah. — Western North America, from the high central plains to the Pacific. North 

 to latitude 60"^ {Richardson). South to Mexico. Breeds apparently throughout most 

 of its range (Texas, Dre.ss , Ibis, 1865, 473), and winters along our southern border. 



Lieutenant (ranew's 2?jye(Zi«o)i.— 5287, Knife River ; 5268, Fort Union ; 5269, Cannon- 

 ball River, 829.3-4, Black Hills. 



Later Expeditions.— bi'iOo, 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 than most. It is also one of the earliest 

 migrants, in this respect agreeing with S. fuscus of the East. From its 

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

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