BIRDS-TYRANNINAE—SAYORNIS NIGRICANS, 
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SAYORNIS NIGRICANS, Bonap. 
Black Flycatcher. 
Tyrannula nigricans, Swainson, Syn. Birds Mex. Taylor’s Phil. Mag. I, 1827, 367— Newberry, Zool. Cal. & 
Or. Route, Rep. P. R. R. Surv. VI, iv, 1857, 81. 
Muscicapa nigricans, Aud. Orn. Biog. V, 1839, 302 ; pi. 474.— Ib. Birds Amer. I, 1840, 218 ; pi. 60. 
Tyrannus nigricans, Ndttall, Man. I, 2d ed. 1840, 326. 
Myiobius nigricans, Gray. 
Myiarchus nigricans, Cabanis, Tschudi Fauna Peruan. 1844-’46, 153, (Peru.) 
Sayornis nigricans, Bonap. Comptes Rendus XXVIII, 1854, notes Orn. 87. 
Jlulanax nigricans, Cabanis, Cab. Journal fur Ornith. IV, Jan. 1856, 2, (type of genus.) 
Muscicapa semi-atra, Vigors, Zool. Beechey Voy. 1839, 17. 
Sp. Ch. —Wings rounded ; second, third, and fourth longest ; first rather shorter than sixth. Tarsi with a second row of 
scales behind. The head and neck all round, fore part and sides of the breast, dark sooty brown ; the rest of the upper parts 
similar, but. lighter; faintly tinged with lead color towards the tail. The middle of the breast, abdomen, and lower tail coverts 
white; some of the latter with the shafts and the centre brown. The lower wing coverts grayish brown, edged with white. 
Wings dark brown ; the edges of secondary coverts rather lighter ; of primary coverts dull white. Edge of the exterior 
vane of the first primary and of secondaries, white. Tail dark brown, with the greater part of the outer vane of the exterior 
tail feather white ; this color narrowing from the base to the tip. Bill and feet black. The tail rounded ; rather emarginate ; 
feathers broad ; more obliquely truncate than in sayus. The bill slender ; similar to that of S.fuscus. 
Length, nearly 7 inches ; wing, 3.60 ; tail, 3.45. 
Hab. —California coast, (Umpqua valley, Oregon, Newberry) and across by valley of Gila and upper Rio Grande to New 
Leon, and south. 
The female appears to differ only in the smaller size. A young bird from San Francisco has 
two hands of rusty on the wing; the shoulders and hinder part of the hack tinged with the 
same. 
List of specimens. 
Oatal. 
No. 
Sex. 
Locality. 
When col¬ 
lected. 
Whence obtained. 
Orig. 
No. 
Collected by— 
Length. 
Stretch 
of wings. 
Wing. 
Remarks. 
7218 
7217 
7219 
5911 
3906 
7214 
7215 
7216 
4004 
4005 
2963 
7943 
9106 
R. D. Cutts........ 
Lt. R. S. Williamson. 
Dr. Heermann..... 
<J 
7.00 
11.00 
9 
Espia, Mexico ......... 
Camp 105, Pueblo creek, 
New Mexico. 
Fort Thorn.. 
1855.. 
Mar. 19,1854 
Major Emory...... 
Lt. Whipple .. 
54 
189 
Dr. Kennerly ...... 
Kennerly and Moll- 
hausen..... ...... 
6.12 
10.00 
3.00 
Eyes black ... 
Eyes dark brown... 
S 
9 
Cadereita, Mexico . 
Apl. —, 1853 
Lt. Couch... 
Northern Mexico.. e ., „. 
S. P. Baird....,.... 
Mexico................ 
Mexico...,............ 
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