Description

John Cassin (1813-1869)
Plate 18,TheCrowned Flycatcher
From: Illustrations of the Birds of California, Texas, Oregon, British and Russian America
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1856
Chromolithograph
Paper dimensions:10.5 x 7″
Framed dimensions: 12.75 x 21″

With text below image:
The Crowned Flycatcher is a large, assertive flycatcher with rich reddish-brown accents and a lemon-yellow belly. This is a common bird of Eastern woodlands. Its habit of hunting high in the canopy means it’s not particularly conspicuous—until you learn its very distinctive call, an emphatic rising whistle. These flycatchers swoop after flying insets and may crash into foliage in pursuit of leaf-crawling prey. They are the only Eastern flycatchers that nest in cavities.