MUSCICAPA. 41 



Britain and Ireland, becoming rarer in the north. Breeds 

 throughout Europe as far north as lat. 70, and in Asia as far 

 east as Lake Baikal, "wintering in Africa as far south as the 

 Cape. 



Muscicapa atricapilla. PIED FLYCATCHER. 



Muscicapa Atricapilla, Linnaus, S. N. i. p. 326 



(1766). 



Muscicapa luctuosa, Naum. ii. p. 231 ; Macg. iii. p. 524. 

 Muscicapa atricapilla, Hewitson, p. 75 ; Gray, p. 79 ; Yarr. 



ed. 2, i. p. 177; id. ed. 3, i. p. 187; Newton, i. p. 229; 



Gould, ii. pi. 17; Harting, p. 10; Dresser, iii. p. 453. 

 Pied Flycatcher, Yarr. ed. 1, i. p. 169. 



Atricapilla = black-haired. Cf. Blackcap. 



A local summer visitant to Great Britain, breeding chiefly 

 in the lake-districts of England and in Wales, and in the 

 eastern and midland counties of Scotland; unknown in 

 Ireland. Breeds throughout Europe, ranging as far north as ^ 



the Arctic Circle, and wintering in Africa down to the x 

 Gambia. Eastwards it occurs as far as Persia. 



[Muscicapa collaris. WHITE-COLLARED FLYCATCHER. 



Muscicapa collaris, Bechstein, Naturg. Deutschl. iv. 

 p. 495 (1795). 



Muscicapa melanoptera, Naum. xiii. p. 245. 

 Muscicapa collaris, Naum. xiii. p. 247; Newton, i. p. 232; 

 Gould, ii. pi. 18; Dresser, iii. p. 459. 



Collaris = pertaining to the neck, collum, from its distinctive white neck. 



Mr. Gould (/. c.) remembered having seen at a bird-stuifer's 

 shop a specimen of this bird which was said to have been 

 killed in Britain ; but there is no other record. It breeds 

 in Southern and Central Europe, rarely extending to the 

 northern parts.] 



