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Muscicapa latirostris. BROWN FLYCATCHER. 



Muscicapa latirostris Raffles, Trans. Linn. Soc. London, 

 xiii. 1821, pt. 2, p. 312 : Sumatra. 



Alseonax latirostris (JRaJftes) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. iv. 1879, 



p. 127 ; Nicoll, Bull. B. O. C. xxiii. 1909, p. 93. 

 Latirostris, from latus= broad, and rostrum=.& beak. 



Distribution in the British Islands. A Rare Visitor. It has 

 occurred in Kent, May 1 909. 



General Distribution. The Brown Flycatcher breeds in 

 eastern Siberia from Lake Baikal to Korea, northern China, 

 and Japan ; also in the Himalaya west to Chamba and south- 

 wards to southern central India. It is found in winter in 

 India and Ceylon and eastwards to the Greater Sunda 

 Islands and Philippines. 



Muscicapa atricapilla. PIED FLYCATCHER. 



Muscicapa atricapilla Linnwus, Syst. Nat. 12th ed. i. 

 1766, p. 326 : Sweden. 



Muscicapa atricapilla Linn. ; SJiarpe, Cat. Birds B. M. iv. 1879, 

 p. 157; B. O. U. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 41; Saunders, 

 Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 159. 

 Atricapilla from dter = black, and capillus = hair. 

 Distribution in the British Islands. A Summer Visitor to 

 Great Britain, nesting chiefly in the western and northern 

 counties of England. In Scotland it breeds locally in small 

 numbers in some southern counties, occasionally as far north 

 as Inverness-shire. As a Bird of Passage it is frequent on 

 the south and east coasts and at the Orkney and Shetland 

 Islands. A Rare Visitor to Ireland. 



General Distribution. The typical form of this species 

 breeds in Europe from about 69 N. latitude in Scandinavia 

 and 60 N. in northern Russia, east to the Urals, and south 

 to Spain and Italy. It winters in Africa. It is represented 

 by M. a. semitorquata in Greece, the Caucasus, Asia Minor, 

 and Persia, and by M. a. speculigera in north-west Africa. 



