say’s flycatcher. 
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* * Smaller species (or ordinary MusciPETiE.) 
These hardly require separation from the former division, with 
which they agree in every thing but size. 
SAY’S FLYCATCHER. 
( Muscicapa Saya , Bonap. i. p. 20. pi. 2, fig. 3. Philad. Museum, 
No. 6831.) 
Sp. Charact. — Dull cinnamon-brown ; belly pale rufous ; tail near- 
ly even ; the 1st primary longer than the 6th. 
This species was obtained by Mr. T. Peale, one of 
the naturalists who accompanied Major Long’s expedition, 
in the vicinity of the Arkansas River, and about 20 miles 
from the Rocky Mountains. Prince Bonaparte imagines 
it may be a tropical American species, indicated under 
the inadmissible name of M. ohscura by Veillot. 
This Flycatcher strongly resembles the Common Pe- 
wee (M. fusca.), having even the same note, but deliver- 
ed in a different and distinguishing tone. Its nest, found 
in July, was built in a tree, and. consisted chiefly of moss 
and clay, interwoven with a few blades of dried grass. 
The young were just ready to fly. 
The length of Say’s Fly-catcher is 7 inches. Above, dull cinnamon- 
brown, becoming darker on the head. Beneath, throat, and breast 
of the same dull cinnamon tint, gradually passing into the pale ru- 
fous of the abdomen ; the under wing-coverts white, slightly tinged 
with rufous. The primaries dusky, tinged with cinnamon ; the 1st 
a quarter of an inch shorter than the 2d, which is nearly as long as 
the 3d; the 3d longest; the 4th and 5th gradually decrease, and the 
6th is shorter than the 1st. The tail is scarcely notched and black- 
ish-brown. The bill is remarkably flattened, the upper mandible 
blackish, the lower pale horn-color below. The feet are also black- 
ish ; and the irids brown. 
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