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pi. XXI, fig. 1. Baedeker, Tab. 52, fig. 11. Taczanowski, Tab. XLI, 

 fig. 1. Seebohm, Br. Birds, pi. 9: id. Col. Fig. pi. 51. Frohawk, Br. 

 Birds, I, pi. Ill, fig. 111—113. Dresser, pi. — , fig. 1—5. Nest: 0. Lee, 

 III, p. 108. 



British Local Names: Beam, Wall, Post, Rafter, or Bee Bird, 

 Cherry Sucker, Wall Robin or Chat. Welsh: Cylionydd, Owyhedog. 



Foreign Names: Bohemia: Lejsek sedivi) Denmark and Norway: 

 Oraa Fluesnapper. France: Oohe-mouche gris. Germany: Orauer Miegen- 

 f anger. Holland: Vliegenvanger. Hungary: Szilrke legykapo. Italy: 

 Pigliamosclie. Poland: Mucholowka szara. Portugal: Taralhao. Spain: 

 Pupa moscas. Russia: Pienka. Sweden: Ord Plugs nappare. 



Muscicapa grisola L. Newton, ed. Yarrell, I, p. 220. Dresser, 

 Birds of Eur., Ill, p. 447 ; id. Man. Pal. Birds, p. 253. Saunders, Man. 

 p. 157. M. striata striata (Pall.). Hartert, Vog. Pal. Fauna, p. 475. 



Breeding Range: The British Isles and Continental Europe, 

 except N. Finmark, the Murman coast and N. E. Russia. [Also N. W. 

 Africa, but W. Asiatic birds belong to another race, M. striata neumanni 

 Poche.] 



This familiar little summer visitor is generally distributed in all the British 

 wooded districts of Great Britain, but becomes scarce in the N. of Scot- 

 land, and does not breed in the Outer Hebrides or the Shetlands. It is 

 said to have nested in the Orkneys, and has certainly done so in Suther- 

 land and Caithness, as well as in Skye and some of the wooded islands 

 on the W. coast of Scotland, such as Mull and Jura. It breeds in 

 Anglesey and the Isle of Man.; and has been known to nest in every 

 Irish county, though somewhat local and not common there. 



It is found in suitable localities throughout the Continent, except in con- 

 the extreme N. of Norway and N. Russia. In the former country it is only ""^e'ltai 



Kurope. 



absent from that part of Finmark N. of lat. 70 , but in Russia it breeds 

 in the Kola Peninsula up to 681", and is common near Archangel, but 

 appears to be absent from the eastern part of the Archangel government. 

 Southward its range extends to the Mediterranean, and it is also com- 

 mon on the islands, nesting at a considerable height in the mountain 

 forests of Corsica and Sardinia. [In N. Africa it breeds as far S. as 

 lat. 31° in Marocco, also in the mountains of North Algeria and Tunisia, 

 and probably also in Tripoli. Hartert ascribes the Palestine bird to 

 M. s. neumanni^ 



In England this bird is one of the latest migrants to arrive, and Nest. 

 is generally met with in gardens, parks, edges of woods, etc., appearing 

 to prefer the neighbourhood of houses. It is however equally at home 

 high up in the mountain forests of Corsica, breeding in crevices of the 



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