The Sad Flycatcher lives in Jamaican woodland and forest edges, catching insects in short flights from a perch.
Adults have a brown head and back, with yellowish underparts. The sexes look similar.
It sallies from a perch to catch insects and returns to a branch.
It nests in natural or artificial cavities, including old woodpecker holes, spaces under house eaves and holes in coconut palms.
Pale grey tips to the greater and median wing-coverts form two faint wingbars.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.