SAY’S FLYCATCHER. 
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verges above on cinnamon-brown instead of greenish, and beneath 
is cinereous and rufous instead of yellowish-ochreous; and by the 
proportional length of the primary feathers, the first being longer 
than the sixth in our bird, whereas it is shorter in the Pewee. 
The total length of Say’s Flycatcher is seven inches. The bill 
is long, straight, and remarkably flattened; the upper mandible is 
blackish, and but 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 occa¬ 
sionally interwoven. The young birds were, at that season, just 
ready to fly. 
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