PIED FLYCATCHRir 229 



PASSE RES. M USCICA PID.E. 



MUSCICAPA ATRICAPILLA, Linnffius *. 



THE PIED FLYCATCHER. 



Muscicajxi <t tr'icaiVdla. 



The Pied Flycatcher is in England much less numerous 

 as a species than the well-known Spotted Flycatcher, and 

 has a comparatively restricted distrihution ; but it is also 

 a summer-visitor to this country, arriving in April, and 

 leaving to go southward in September. It appears to be 

 most plentiful in the vicinity of the Lakes of Cumberland 

 and Westmoreland ; and in some of its habits, particularly 

 in its mode of feeding, as also in the nature of its food, it 

 resembles its commoner congeneric companion ; but with 



* Syst. Nat. Ed. 12, i. p. 326 (186G). 



