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MUSCICAPID.E. 



INSESSORES. 



DENTIROSTRES. 



MUSClCAPlD.f.. 



THE SPOTTED FLYCATCHER. 



Mitscieapa grisola, Spotted Flqcatcher, 



Cobe-mouche gris. 



Penn. Brit. Zool. vol. i. p. 471. 

 Montagu, Ornith. Diet. 

 Bewick, Brit. Birds, vol. i. p. 213. 

 Flf.m. Brit. An. p. 63. 

 Selby, Brit. Ornith. vol. i. p. 141. 

 Jenvns, Brit. Vert. p. 97. 

 Gould, Birds of Europe, pt. xviii. 

 Temm. Man. d'Ornith. vol. i. p. 152. 



MusciCAPA. Generic Characters. — Beak of moderate length, stout, angu- 

 lar ; broad and depressed at the base ; compressed towards the point, which is 

 slightly curved : the base surrounded with hairs directed forwards. Nostrils 

 basal, lateral, oval, partly concealed by hairs. Feet with the tarsus the same 

 length, or even longer than tlie middle toe : the lateral toes nearly equal in 

 length ; the outer toe connected to the middle one ; the claw of the hind toe 

 stronger and more curved than eitiier of the others. Wings — tiie first feather 

 very short, the second not so long as the fourth, the third the longest. 



The Spotted Flycatcher is one of the latest, but, at 

 the same time, one of the most reguLar of our summer visitors. 



