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MUSCICAPID^E. 



IKSESSORES. 



DENTIROSTRES. 



MUSCIGAPIDJE. 





THE SPOTTED FLYCATCHER. 



Muscicapa grisola. 



Muscicapa grisola, Spotted Flycatcher, PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. i. p. 471. 



MONTAGU, Ornith. Diet. 



BEWICK, Brit. Birds, vol. L p. 213. 



FLEM. Brit. An. p. 63. 



., SELBY, Brit. Ornith. vol. i. p. 141. 



JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 97. 



,. GOULD, Birds of Europe, pt. xviii. 



Gobe-mouclie gris, TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. vol. i. p. 152. 



MUSCICAPA. Generic characters. Beak of moderate length, stout, angular ; 

 broad and depressed at the base ; compressed towards the point, which is slightly 

 curved: the base surrounded with hairs directed forwards. Nostrils basal, lateral, 

 oval, partly concealed by hairs. Feet with the tarsus the same length, or even 

 longer than the middle toe : the lateral toes nearly equal in length ; the outer toe 

 connected to the middle one ; the claw of the hind toe stronger and more curved 

 than either of the others. Wings the first feather very short, the second not so 

 long as the fourth, the third the longest. 



THE SPOTTED FLYCATCHER is one of the latest, but, at 

 the same time, one of the most regular of our summer 



