Stolid Flycatcher

The stolid flycatcher is 20 cm (7.9 in) long and weighs about 19 to 26 g (0.67 to 0.92 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults of the nominate subspecies have an olive-green crown that has a small crest. Their face is dark gray. Their upperparts are mostly olive-green with slightly lighter uppertail coverts. Their wings are mostly brown with thin rufous edges on the primaries and pale grayish white edges on the outer webs of the secondaries and tertials. The wing's greater and median coverts have wide pale grayish white tips that show as two clear wing bars. Their tail is mostly brown with rufous inner webs of all but the outermost feathers. Their throat and breast are pale ashen gray and their belly and undertail coverts yellow. Subspecies M. s. dominicensis has rufous on all the tail feathers. Both subspecies have a dark iris, a dark bill, and dark legs and feet.

The nominate subspecies of the stolid flycatcher is endemic to Jamaica. The subspecies M. s. dominicensis is found in the Dominican Republic and Haiti, including their offshore islands; the countries share the island of Hispaniola. On both islands it is found in the tropical zone. It inhabits the interior and edges of lowland forest, drier woodlands, scrublands, and mangroves. On Hispaniola it also occurs in pine forest. Though it ranges from sea level to 1,800 m (5,900 ft) it is found less frequently in the higher elevations.

The stolid flycatcher feeds on insects and fruits. It typically forages by snatching prey and fruit from vegetation while briefly hovering after a sally from a perch.