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MUSCICAPA GRISOLA. THE SPOTTED GREY 

 FLYCATCHER. 



SPOTTED FLYCATCHER. GREY FLYCATCHER. BEE BIRD. CHERRY CHOPPER. 



Muscicapa Grisola. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 328. 



Muscicapa Grisola. Lath. Ind. Orn. I. 467. 



Spotted Flycatcher. Mont. Orn. Diet. 



Gobe-mouche gris. Muscicapa Grisola. Temm. Man. d'Orn. L 152. 



Spotted Flycatcher. Muscicapa Grisola. Selb. lllustr. I. 141. 



Muscicapa Grisola. Spotted Flycatcher. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. 97. 



Upper parts hroicnisli-grey^ the head spotted with hrown ; lower 

 parts white, the neck and fore part of the breast streaked with 

 greyish-brown. 



Male. — The Spotted Flycatcher is about the size of the 

 Meadow Pipit, or the Black-capped Warbler, and of an equally 

 slender form, the body ovate and a little compressed, the neck 

 rather short, the head of moderate size, broadly ovate, rounded 

 above. The bill is straight, of moderate length, rather stout, 

 depressed or broader than high at the base, tapering to a point ; 

 the upper mandible with its dorsal outline slightly declinate, a 

 little convex towards the end, the ridge narrow, the sides slop- 

 ing and towards the end convex, the edges sharp, direct, and 

 overlapping, the tip very narrow, slightly declinate, the notch 

 reduced to a slight sinus ; the lower mandible has the angle 

 rather short, wide, and rounded, the dorsal outline ascending 



