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CINCLUS PALLASII. 
The total length of Say’s flycatcher is seven inches ; 
the bill is long, straight, and remarkably flattened; 
the upper mandible is blackish, and hut very slightly 
emarginated ; the lower mandible is much dilated, and 
pale horn colour on the disk. The feet are blackish ; 
the irides are brown. The general colour of the whole 
upper parts is dull cinnamon brown, 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 considerably 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 manuscript 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. 
GENUS X.— CINCLUS, Linnaeus. 
19 . CINCLUS PALLASII, TEMMINCK. PALLAS’ DIPPER, BONAP. 
BONAPARTE, PLATE XVI. FIG. I. 
The recent discovery of the genus Cinclus in 
America, furnishes an interesting fact in the history of 
the geographical distribution of birds, this genus being 
one of the twenty-five European, enumerated in our 
Observations on Wilson's Ornithology , as not known 
