SAY’S FLYCATCHER. 
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darker on the head ; the plumage at base is of a lead colour. 
The throat and breast are of the same dull cinnamon tint, 
gradually passing into pale rufous towards the belly, which is 
entirely of the latter colour; the under wing-coverts are white, 
slightly tinged with rufous. The primaries are dusky, tinged 
with cinnamon, and having brown shafts ; they are consider- 
ably paler beneath. The first primary is a quarter of an inch 
shorter than the second, which is nearly as long as the third ; 
the third is longest ; the fourth and fifth gradually decrease, 
and the sixth is decidedly shorter than the first. The tail is 
hardly emarginated, and of a blackish brown colour. 
We know nothing of the habits of this flycatcher, except 
what has been communicated by Mr T. Peale, from his ma- 
nuscript notes. The bird had a nest in July, the time when it 
was obtained ; its voice is somewhat different from that of the 
pewee, and first called attention to its nest, which was built on 
a tree, and consisted chiefly of moss and clay, with a few 
blades of dried grass occasionally interwoven. The young 
birds were, at that season, just ready to fly. 
