PLATE I 

 SPOTTED FLYCATCHER. Muscicapa grisola 



June ist, 1893. The nest depicted in the Plate was built in a small 

 hollow in the bole of a large tree overhanging the River Teith, Perthshire. 

 The bird had evidently had some difficulty with a large mass of wool which 

 was attached to one side of the nest, as it stuck out from the back of it 

 in an untidy lump. 



All along the banks of the river I saw great numbers of Spotted Flycatchers 

 and found several nests ; but they were all quite impossible to photograph, as 

 they were usually on thin branches overhanging the water, and some height 

 from the ground. 



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