BIRDS BROWN ABOVE AND WHITE BELOW. 67 



stamp, sometimes in closed nests of other species, 

 such as Wrens and Long-Tailed Tits. 



A bird of the pine forests of north Scotland, 

 closely resembling in its appearance and habits the 

 more generally diffused Titmice of Great Britain 

 (which see), but at once distinguishable from any of 

 them by its high, pointed crest. The Blue Tit will 

 at times raise his crest, but it is quite inconspicuous 

 when compared with the pointed, elevated headgear 

 of the Crested Titmouse. 



SPOTTED FLYCATCHER. Plate 32. Length, 

 5& inches. Upper parts hair-brown, streaked with 

 darker brown on the head ; wings and tail dark 

 brown, with lighter edgings to the feathers ; under 

 parts white, spotted with brown on the throat and 

 streaked on the flanks. Summer migrant. 



Eggs. 4-6, bluish or greenish white, clouded, 

 blotched and spotted with rusty-brown and violet- 

 gray ; -75 x -55 inch (plate 124). 



Nest. Of dry grass, moss, lichens, and stripe of 

 bark, lined with wool, feathers, and hair, and placed 

 in a fork of ivy growing against wall or tree, on a 

 beam in an outhouse, or in recesses about trees, 

 walls, and outhouses generally. 



Distribution. Throughout the British Isles. 



The spotting on the throat of this bird is so in- 

 conspicuous that he will appear at a moderate distance 

 to be a bird ' brown above and white below,' and 

 is therefore included under this heading. Having 



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