Quite similar to Hammond Flycatcher in habits and coloration but less restricted in its choice of habitat, frequenting mountain or lowland.
Field identification is much easier by sound than sight. The call note resembles chebec of the Least Flycatcher and males have a spasmodic song of four notes.
NEST: in fork of bush or sapling, a well-built cup of bark, vegetable-fibre and spider webs.
EGGS: 3 or 4; pure white.
Western United States, east of Cascades, southern part of British provinces to Saskatchewan. South to Texas, New Mexico and California.
A 25-foot tree, distributed in Guadalupe River Valley, Texas.