say’s flycatcher. 
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MUSCICAPA SATA , BONAPARTE. — SAY’S FLYCATCHER* 
BONAPARTE, PLATE II. FIG. HI. 
St' t E no ' v introduce into the Fauna of the United 
jj. es a species which is either a nondescript, or one 
*> been improperly named; and I dedicate it to 
f inend Thomas Say, a naturalist of whom America 
^ justly he proud, and whose talents and knowledge 
w 0n *y '“quailed by his modesty. The specimen now 
J n | 01 e lis is a male, shot by Mr T. Peale, on the 17th ot 
the i> near the Arkansaw river, about twenty miles from 
• locky Mountains. 
a (l , van not be perfectly sure that this flycatcher has 
tie vetofore been noticed, since we find in the hooks, 
sin? S ^ l01 ‘ t and unessential descriptions which might be 
Pposed to indicate it. One of these is the Muscicapa 
fra of Latham, (dusky flycatcher of his Synopsis,) 
of ? the Sandwich Islands ; hut, besides the difference 
l 0 „„,. e tail-feathers, described as acute in that bird, the 
o t ii ht . v decides against its identity with ours. The 
M 1 r description is that of a bird from Cayenne, the 
“«cieap a obscura of Vieillot,* given by that author 
tlip ' ' '' distinct from Latham’s, although he has applied 
p 0 „ name to it, no doubt inadvertently. This may 
w bl y be our bird; but, even, in this case, the name 
0/, Ve °hosen will necessarily he retained, as that ot 
pri ( *” i,a attaches to Latham’s species by the right ot 
qi, * 
fj yr ,s flycatcher strongly resembles the common pewee 
by l !\ C * ca Pa fusca,) but differs from that familiar bird 
(,tqi Ui Very remarkable form of the hill ; by the colour 
} 1(g e Plumage, which verges above on cinnamon brown, 
i„ , ea d °f greenish, and beneath is cinereous and rufous, 
1 (1 . f ;“d of yellowish ochreous ; and by the proportional 
tv S' 1 of the primary feathers, the first being longer 
Pe\ U t ' !0 s * x th in our bird, whereas it is shorter in the 
* Norn. Diet. d'Bist. Nat. xxi. p. 451. 
