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time, indeed, already grey — Flycatcher again made its appearance. 

 The last example of that year I find recorded upon the 20th. 



This bird appears in incomparably smaller numbers when 

 arrayed in the attractive garb of spring. Its migration at this 

 season commences with the last week of April — in 1884, on the 

 26th of that month — lasts through May, and sometimes, as stated 

 above, extends even into July. 



The breeding range of this species extends from northern Spain 

 through the whole of central Europe, beyond the Ural, where the 

 bird gets gradually scarcer and finally disappears. In Scandinavia, 

 it has been met with up to 70° N. latitude. 



56. — White-collared Flycatcher [Halsband-Fliegex- 



fanger]. 



MUSCICAPA ALBICOLLIS, Temm.i 



Muscicapa albicoUis. Naumann, ii. 224. 



White-collared Flycatcher. Dresser, iii. 459. 



Gohe-riiouche a collier. Temminck, Manuel, i. 153, iii. 84. 



This elegant little bird has been seen here only once during the 

 last fifty years, the individual in question being a very fine old male, 

 cauffht on the 3rd of June 1860 in a small fowler's net, and now 

 forming an ornament of my collection. It is hardly likely that 

 this species can have occurred here more frequently, for the bird 

 was entirely unknowTi to all local gunners and fowlers, not even 

 Reymers having ever seen one like it before on the island. 



This Flycatcher belongs, as a breeding species, to southern 

 Europe, fi'om Portugal to the Caucasus; its numbers, however, pre- 

 ponderate in the western tracts of this area. Isolated examples 

 have been found nesting as far north as central Germany. 



57. — Spotted Flycatcher [Gefleckter Fliegenfanger]. 

 MUSCICAPA GRISOLA, Liim. 



Heligolandish : B.\is-'Be.&]i.uta = House-Jlycatcher. 



Muscicapa grisola. Naumann, ii. 216. 



Spotted Flycatcher. Dresser, iii. 447. 



Gobe-mouche gris. Temmincli, Manuel, i. 152, iii. 83. 



This harmless and confiding little bu-d is probably the latest 

 of our spring visitors, and its passage seems to be far more 



^ Muscicajja coUari<, Bechat. 



