Sad Flycatcher

The sad flycatcher is 16.5 to 17 cm (6.5 to 6.7 in) long and weighs 11.5 to 16 g (0.41 to 0.56 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults have a smoky olive-brown crown and face; the crown feathers form a crest. Their upperparts are more olive with rufous-tinged olive-brown uppertail coverts. Their wings are mostly brown with pale grayish edges on the tertials. Their greater and median wing coverts have a rufous tinge that forms faint wing bars. Their tail is mostly brown with rufous on the outer webs of some feathers. Their throat and upper breast are gray to pale whitish and their lower breast, belly, and undertail coverts lemon-yellow. They have a dark iris, bill, and legs and feet. Juveniles have entirely gray underparts.

The sad flycatcher is found throughout most of Jamaica. It primarily inhabits lowland and montane evergreen forest and woodlands, to a lesser extent drier lowland areas and open high-elevation forest, and seldom mangroves. In elevation it ranges from sea level to 2,000 m (6,600 ft).

The sad flycatcher feeds on small insects. It typically perches about 3 to 9 m (10 to 30 ft) above the ground and makes sallies to grab prey from foliage. It often returns to the same perch.