338 BIRDS OF SOUTH AFRICA. 
of the latter colour: all the wing-coverts chestnut like the back, as 
also the secondaries: primaries black for their terminal half, the 
basal half chestnut: head, crested, blackish, the hinder neck dusky 
blackish mottled with chestnut, the margins to the plumes being of 
this colour: ear-coverts black slightly washed with chestnut: 
cheeks and under surface of body dull fawn-bulf, the chin and lower 
abdomen white, the breast, flanks, under wing-coverts and imner 
lining of the quills chestnut, the primaries blackish at tip: thighs 
chestnut. Total length, 6 inches; wing, 3:3; tail, 2°1; tarsus, 0°5. 
Fig. Finsch and Hartl. Vég. Ostafr., pl. iii., figs. 2, 3. 
325. Muscicapa GRISOLA. Spotted Flycatcher. 
The Common Flycatcher of Europe is tolerably widely distributed 
in South Africa during its absence from that continent, but it is 
never very plentiful in the Cape Colony. Sir Andrew Smith 
obtained a specimen during his sojourn in South Africa, and Mr. 
L. C. Layard met with it at Grootevadersbosch, but neither Victorin 
nor Andersson appear to have seen it during their stay at the 
Knysna. From Natal Mr. Ayres has forwarded specimens, and the 
British Museum also contains examples from this colony. Two 
specimens only were contained in Mr. Andersson’s last collection 
from Ondonga, and we believe that the note given in the “ Birds of 
Damara Land” (p. 129), under the heading of M. grisola refers 
properly to M. ccerulescens. The measurements of the wing given 
by Mr. Andersson do not exactly accord with either of these species, 
but that of the tarsus agrees with M. cwrulescens, and not with 
M. grisola, which can also hardly be spoken of as “found in Damara 
Land throughout the year.” The Ondonga specimens of M. grisola, 
formerly in the editor’s collection, are now in that of the British 
Museum, which also contains others from various parts of Western 
Africa, Abyssinia, and Mombas on the east coast. 
Adult.—General colour brown, the forehead and crown of the 
head broadly streaked with dark brown centres to the feathers: 
wing-coverts brown, with whity-brown edges to the wing-coverts 
and secondaries, the primaries and primary-coverts dark brown 
narrowly margined with paler brown: tail dark brown, with lighter 
brown edges to the feathers: lores and feathers in front of the eye 
dull whitish: round the eye a ring of buffy whitish feathers: ear- 
coverts brown: cheeks dull white, longitudinally streaked with light 
