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leaving in September or October. Notes very like 

 those of the Redstart. Local or other name : 

 Goldfinch. A close sitter. 



FLYCATCHER, SPOTTED. 



(Muscicapa grisola.} 

 Order PASSERES ; Family MUSCICAPID.E (FLYCATCHERS). 



Description of Parent Birds. 

 Length about six inches. 

 Bill of medium length, straight, 

 broad at the base, and dusky- 

 black in colour. Irides dark 

 brown. Head, back of neck, 

 back, rump, and upper tail- 

 coverts brown, the head being 

 YOUNG SPOTTED spotted with a darker tinge 



FLYCATCHER. \. ,, - TTr . l 



oi the same colour. Wings 



brown, tail the same colour, and a trifle lighter at 

 the tip. Chin, throat, breast, and under -parts a 

 dull white, streaked on the throat and breast with 

 dusky-brown. Legs, toes, and claws dusky-black. 



The female is very similar to the male. 



Situation and Locality. On the horizontal 

 branches of fruit trees trained against walls, in 

 trellis- work, rose trees trained against houses, in 

 holes in walls, ivy climbing up a wall or the trunk 

 of a tree (as in our illustration), on ledges of rock, 

 on the ends of beams projecting from old houses 

 and sheltered by an overhanging gable or roof, and 

 in almost every conceivable situation. I have seen 

 it inside half of the shell of a Cocoanut, in an old 

 boot thrown into a tree, and other odd sites. 



Materials. These vary as considerably as the 



