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SPOTTED FLYCATCHER. 



Y GWYBEDOG, OP THE ANCIENT BEITISH. 



BEAM BIRD. RAFTER. COB-WEB BIRD. BEE BIRD. CHERRY CHOPPER. 

 POST BIRD. CHERRY SUCKER. CHANCHIDER. 



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PLATE XXXVIII. 



Muscicapa grisola, MONTAGU. PENNANT. 



NIDIFICATION commences immediately after the arrival of the birds; 

 they almost seem to have paired before their migration, or if not, 

 at all events they do so at once when here. 



The nest, which is built at the beginning of June, is composed of 

 various materials, such as small twigs, catkins, and moss, lined with 

 feathera, hair, down, and cobwebs. The same situation is resorted 

 to year after year, and scarce any attempt is made at concealment. 

 A pair which built in the trellis-work close to the drawing-room 

 window of a house I once resided in, not being disturbed, returned 

 there three successive summers, and I hope that they or their 

 descendants do so still. Another pair have now for two seasons 

 built in the same way, in the trellis-work over the drawing-room 

 window of Nafferton Vicarage, in which this account of it is written. 

 A favourite resort is such a place, or a tree trained against a wall, 

 on account of the support afforded by it. 



Another couple placed theirs in a tree immediately over an entrance 

 door, which, whenever it was opened, caused them to fly off; another 

 pair on the angle of a lamp-post in Leeds; and another on the 

 ornamental crown of one in London. Another pair placed theirs on 

 the end of a garden rake; another in a cage hung up in a tree, 



