108 MUSCICAPID^E. 



Hirtensis=ot the island of St. Kilda (Lat. Hirta), off the west of Scotland. 



Distribution. -Resident in. and peculiar to, the St. Kilda 

 group of islands. 



Troglodytes troglodytes zetlandicus. 



SHETLAND WREN. 



Troglodytes troglodytes zetlandicus Hartert, V6g. 

 pal. Fauna, i. 1910, p. 777 : Shetland Islands. 



Zetlandicus = of the Shetland Islands. 



Distribution. Resident in, and confined to, the Shetland 

 Islands. 



Family MUSCIOAPID^. 



Genus MUSCICAPA Linncvus, Syst. Nat. 12th ed. i. 1766, 

 p. 324. 



Type : M. grisola Linn. 



Muscicapa, from musca = a fly, and cdpere = to catch. 



Muscicapa grisola. SPOTTED FLYCATCHER. 



Muscicapa grisola Linnceus, Syst. Nat. i. 12th ed. 1766, 

 p. 328 : France. 



Muscicapa grisola Linn. ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds JB. M. iv. 1879, 

 p. 151; JB. O. IT. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 40; Saunders, 

 Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 157. 

 Grisola = a little grey bird, from griseus = grey. 

 Distribution in the British Islands. A Summer Visitor 

 widely distributed us a nesting-bird, but absent from the 

 northern and outer western Islands of Scotland. As a Bird of 

 Passage it occurs in both spring and autumn, and is then 

 observed at the Orkney and Shetland Islands. 



General Distribution. The Spotted Flycatcher breeds 

 throughout Europe, from Tromso and Archangel to the 

 Mediterranean, and in the Atlas Mountains, north-west 

 Africa. It winters in central and southern Africa. In 

 western Asia the form M. g. neumanni has been recognised. 



