PASSE RES. 



PTED FLYCATCHER. 229 



MUSCICAPID^K. 



MUSCICAPA ATRICAPILLA, Linnaeus *. 



THE PIED FLYCATCHEE. 



Muscicapa atricapilla. 



THE PIED FLYCATCHER is in England much less numerous 

 as a species than the well-known Spotted Flycatcher, and 

 has a comparatively restricted distribution ; but it is also 

 a summer-visitor to this country, arriving in April, and 

 leaving to go southward in September. It appears to be 

 most plentiful in the vicinity of the Lakes of Cumberland 

 and Westmoreland ; and in some of its habits, particularly 

 in its mode of feeding, as also in the nature of its food, it 

 resembles its commoner congeneric companion ; but with 



* Syst. Nat. Ed. 12, i. p. 326 (1866). 



