118 BIRDS OF EGYPT. 



south, and returns again in March and April; but is never 

 plentiful, although, according to Von Heuglin, it ranges 

 throughout North-eastern Africa. 



Male. — Lower part of the forehead, lores, feathers around 

 the eye, and ear-coverts black ; upper part of the head and 

 neck grey ; upper part of the back and scapulars chestnut ; 

 rump and tail-coverts grey ; tail, two centre feathers, the 

 inner web of the next on each side, shafts, and a band at the 

 end dark brown, remainder white ; wings brown, primaries 

 with very narrow pale edgings, inner secondaries and wing- 

 coverts broadly edged with chestnut ; underparts white, 

 strongly shaded with rufous on the chest and flanks ; beak 

 black ; legs and irides brown. 



Entire length 7*2 inches; culmen 0'6 ; wing, carpus to 

 tip, 3-7 ; tarsus 1. 



Fig. Sharpe and Dresser, B. of Eur. part iv. 



Fam. MUSCICAPID-ai. 



76. MuscicAPA GRisoLA, Liuu. Spotted Flycatcher. 



The Spotted Flycatcher ranges throughout Egypt and 

 Nubia, but appears to be of rather rare occurrence in those 

 countries ; for I have only observed it myself on a single 

 occasion near Alexandria in April. Von Heuglin says (Orn, 

 N. O. Afr. p. 439) that this species occasionally breeds in 

 Lower Egypt, but is more generally to be met with during 

 its migrations in the autumn and spring. 



Male. — Upper plumage hair-brown, with the centre of the 

 feathers on the crown dark brown ; wings and tail rather 



