SWALLOWS FLYCATCHER. 295 



Gen. Chelidon, Boie. 

 Tail moderate, not deeply cloven. 



65. H. URBICA, L. Hus Svala. The Martin. D. F. 



Length 5-i- in. Colour, black above, with a blue 

 gloss ; upper tail coverts, breast, and belly, white ; tail 

 very little cloven ; no spot on the feathers ; legs 

 feathered to the claws. 



Equally common both in the south of Sweden and Lap- 

 land. 



66. H. KIPARIA, L. Strand Svala. The Sand Martin. D. F. 



All the upper parts, and a transverse band on the 

 breast, brown. Legs and toes bare, not feathered. 

 Very common in many parts, but local. I did not ob- 

 serve them so common, however, in Lapland as the last. 



Fam. 6. DENTIROSTRES. SONG BIRDS. 

 Tip of the upper mandible slightly toothed and hooked ; 

 outer toe united to the middle one at the base. 



Gen. Muscicapa, L. 



Bill short, broad at the base, which is furnished with 

 bristles ; wings long and pointed ; third and fourth feathers 

 longest ; hind toe long ; tail even at the end ; extends one 

 half beyond the closed wings. 



67. MUSCICAPA GRISOLA, L. Gra Flugsnappare, The 



Spotted Flycatcher. D. F. 



Length 6 in.; upper parts brown ash; under parts 

 white ; head and breast dusky spotted. Second wing 

 feather longer than fifth, first scarcely longer than 

 nearest covert. 



Has a wide range over Scandinavia, to far up within 

 the Polar circle. Eggs greyish white, red-brown, spotted 

 all over. 



All the flycatchers are summer migrants to Scandinavia. 



68. M. PARVA, Bechst. Liten Flugsnappare, D. 



Length 4 in. Colour, above brown, unspotted; 

 below whitish without spots; on the breast shaded 



