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SPOTTED FLYCATCHER. 

 (Muscicapa Grisola.) 



Mu. subfusca subtus albicans, collo longitudinaliter maculatp, 



crisso rufescente. 



Brownish Flycatcher, beneath whitish, with the neck longitudi- 

 nally spotted, and the vent rufous. 

 Muscicapa Grisola. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 328. 20. Gmel. Syst. 



Nat. 1. 949. Briss. Orn. 2. 35? '. 1. pi. 35. f. 3. Lath. Ind. 



Orn. 2. 467. 1. 

 Le Gobemouche. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 4. BlJ.pl 15. f. 2. 



Buff. PI. Enl. 565. f. I. 

 Spotted Flycatcher. Pen. Brit. Zool. 1. 134. Lenin. Brit. 



Birds. 3. &7.Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 323. 1 Mont. Brit. Birds. 



1 Bewick. Brit. Birds. 1. 196. 



THIS species is the size of a Titlark, being 

 scarcely six inches in length : the beak is dusky : 

 the irides hazel : the whole upper parts of the 

 bird are brown ; the head obscurely spotted with 

 dusky : breast and belly dull white : the shafts of 

 the feathers on the breast dusky: sides under the 

 wings tinged with dull orange : legs short and 

 black : both sexes nearly similar. 



These birds come to us late in the spring, and 

 depart in September : they frequent orchards and 

 groves, particularly where cherries grow, of which 

 they are very fond, and will destroy great quanti- 

 ties, from whence they are called Cherry-suckers 

 in many parts of Kent : their nest is formed of 

 bents, moss, and such like materials, interwoven 

 with spiders' webs, and lined with feathers : the 



