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MUSCICAPA LUCTUOSA. THE PIED FLY- 

 CATCHER. 



Muscicapa Atricapilla. Liiin. Syst. Nat. I. 396. 



Muscicapa Atricapilla. Gmel. Syst. Nat. I. 935. Adult Male. 



Muscicapa Atricapilla. Lath. Tnd. Orn. I. 4G7. Adult Male. 



Pied Flycatcher. Mont. Orn. Diet, and Supp. 



Motacilla Ficedula. Gmel. Syst. Nat. I. 936. Young and Female. 



Sylvia Ficedula. Lath. Ind. Orn. H. 517. Female and Young. 



Gobe-mouche bec-figue. Muscicapa luctuosa. Temm. Man. d'Orn. I. 155. 



Pied Flycatcher. Muscicapa luctuosa. Selb. Illustr. L 143. 



Muscicapa luctuosa. Pied Flycatcher. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. 97. 



Male with the upper parts black ; part of the forehead, a patch 

 on the wing, and the oihter icebs of the two outer tail feathers on 

 each side, as well as all the lower parts, white. Female greyish- 

 hroimi above, broicnish-ichite beneath. 



Male. — The Pied Flycatcher, which, like the Grey, is a 

 summer bird in Britain, is much more uncommon there than 

 that species, and does not appear to extend to Scotland, although 

 it has been found as far north as the Border counties of Eng- 

 land. It is considerably smaller, but much more beautiful 

 than its British congener, which it resembles in its propor- 

 tions. The bill is shortish, straight, slender, a little broader 

 than high at the base, compressed beyond the middle ; the 

 upper mandible .,:th its dorsal outline slightly declinate, a 



