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PIED FLYCATCHER. 



GOLDFINCH. EPICUREAN WARBLER. 



PLATE XXXVII. 



Mmcicapa luctuosa, 



atricapilla, 

 " mitscipeta, 

 Rubetra anglicana, 



TEMMINCK. SELBT. 

 GMELIN. 

 BECHSTEIN. 

 BRISSON. 



NIDIPICATION takes place in May, and the young are hatched the 

 beginning of June. 



The nest, which is composed of moss, grass, straws, chips of 

 bark, leaves, and hair, is built sometimes high up in trees, but often only 

 a few feet from the ground, in a hole of a tree, or of a wall, or 

 bridge, as also occasionally, on a branch or stump of a tree; if in a 

 hole, and it be too large, the bird is said to narrow the entrance 

 with mud. This species seems to have a predilection for the 

 neighbourhood of water, probably on account of the greater number 

 of insects to be there met with. The same situation appears to be 

 resorted to in successive years. The engraving of the nest is from 

 a specimen in the possession of Mr. Alfred Roberts, of Scarborough, 

 obligingly permitted by him to be copied for the use of this work. 



The eggs, from four or five to seven or eight in number, are 

 small, oval, and bluish green, or sometimes nearly white; but they 

 vary considerably in size and shape. Those observed in one nest 

 by Mr. T. C. Heysham, of Carlisle, were disposed as follows: f One 

 lay at the bottom, and the remainder were all regularly placed per- 

 pendicularly round the side of the nest, with the smaller ends 



