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PASSERES. 



MUSCICAPID.E. 



MVSCICAPTD.V:. 



MusciCAPA PARVA, Beclistein*. 



THE RED-BKEASTED FLYCATCHER. 



Among the many birds of central or eastern Europe whose 

 occasional appearance in the British Islands has been lately 

 detected by the daily-increasing number of ornithological 

 observers, few have greater right to be included in this work 

 than the little Flycatcher above figured — three examples, 

 one of which was accompanied by a mate, having been 

 procured. The announcement of the occurrence in England 

 of this species was simultaneously made by Mr. George 

 Gray in the ' Annals and Magazine of Natural History' for 

 March, 1863 (3rd ser. xi. p. 228), and by Mr. Rodd in the 

 ' Zoologist' (p. 8444) for the same month. The bird, after 

 having been seen for some days, was shot on the 24th of 

 January in that year by Mr. Copeland, of Carwythenack 



* Gemeinniitzige Naturgeschichte Deutscb lands, iv. p. 505 (1795). 



