SPOTTED FLYCATCHER, 



BEAM BIRD. RAFTER. COB-WEB BIRD. 

 BIRD. CHERRY CHOPPER. POST BIRD. CHERRY 

 SUCKER. CHAXCHIDER. 



Y GWYBEDOO, OF THE AXCIEXT BRITISH. 

 Musticapa grisola, MONTAGU. PENNANT. 



Muscicapa. 3/usca A fly. Capio To catch or take. 

 Grisola ? 



THIS bird is common throughout Europe, as far north as 

 Norway and Sweden; as also in Africa, along the whole of 

 the western coast, from the north to the south. It is well 

 known in England and Wales, Ireland and Scotland; but 

 least so in the extreme north. It frequents walled and other 

 gardens, orchards, lawns, shrubberies, and pleasure grounds. 



The Spotted Flycatcher is with us a summer visitant, but 

 unusually late in its arrival, which varies in different localities 

 and seasons, from the 7th. to the 20th. of May; and it 

 departs similarly about the end of September, or even as 

 late as the middle of October. 



This familiar bird is very noticeable for a solitariness and 

 depression of appearance, as well as for its habit of perching 

 on the point of a branch, the top of a stake, a rail, or a 

 projection of or hole in a wall, from whence it can 'compre- 

 hend all vagroms' in the shape of winged insects that come 

 within its ken. You seem to think that it is listless, but on 

 a sudden it darts off, sometimes led a little way in chase in 

 an irregular manner like a butterrly; a snap of the bill tells 

 you that it has unerringly captured a fly, and it is back to 

 its perch, which it generally, but not invariably returns to 



