350 FLY-CATCHER. Class II. 



XXI. FLY- BILL flatted at the bafe ; almofl triangular : notch- 

 CArCHER. ^^ ^^^j. ^1^^ ^^j ^£ ^j^^ upper mandible, and befet 



with briftles. 

 TOES divided to their orioin. 



134. Spot- Stoparola. JLh-. a^v. 11. 324. Raiifyn. an), yy* 



T£D. A Imall bird without a name, Lc Gobe-mouche, Mufcicapa. 



like the Stcpparcla oi AUro- BriJJon a'v, II. 357. tab, 35. 

 njand. Wil. orn, 217. f. 3. 



Zinan. 4c. Mufcicapa grifola. Lin.fyji, 

 The Cobweb. Morton Nor- 328. 



thampt, 426. Br, ZooL 99. plate P. 2. f. 4. 



THE fly-catcher is a bird of pafl!age, appears 

 in the fpring, breeds with us, and retires in 

 Aiigujl. It builds its neft on the fides of trees, 

 towards the middle : Morton fays in the corners 

 of walls where fpiders weave their webs. We have 

 feen them followed by four or five young, but 

 never faw their eggs. When the young can fly 

 the old ones withdraw with them into thick 

 woods, where they frolick among the top branch- 

 es; dropping from the boughs frequently quite 

 perpendicular on the flies that fport beneath, and 

 rife again in the fame direftion. It will alfo take 

 its fl:and on the top of fome flake or pod, from 

 whence it fprings forth on its prey, returning fliill 

 to the fame ftand for many times together. They 



feed 



