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season, together with a nestling bird, and the nest itself, 

 are to be placed in the Norwich Museum. 



MUSCICAPIDJE. FLYCATCHERS. 



These constitute the last family in the present group ; 

 and it is a family almost as numerous as that of the War- 

 blers, though represented in this country only by two 

 species. The members of this family, which are distributed 

 through the temperate and tropical regions of the Old 

 World, and the temperate parts of the New, are birds j)f a 

 small size. 



THE SPOTTED FLYCATCHER. Muscicapa grisola. This 

 is one of our summer visitors, arriving in May, and depart- 

 ing in September or October; it is much more common 

 than the Pied Flycatcher. The nest, composed of slender 

 roots and small twigs for its basement, and moss for its 

 walls, and lined with hair and other soft materials, is often 

 placed between the stem of some tree and a neighbouring 

 wall, in the hole of a wall screened by foliage, on the end 

 of a beam in an outhouse, or among the roots of some tree 

 overhanging water, with other and sometimes singular 

 situations ; and the eggs, four or five in number, are of 



