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lower parts greyish-white, the neck and fore part of the breast 

 streaked with greyish-brown, the sides and lower wing-coverts 

 light reddish-brown. Young with the bill light brown, the 

 upper parts dull yellowish-grey; the feathers edged with 

 dusky ; the wing-coverts, quills, and tail-feathers chocolate 

 brown, the former tipped, the latter margined with pale 

 brownish-red. 



Male, 6ft, 1<H, 3i, T V, A, & A- Female, 6, 10. 



This species, which arrives from the middle to the end of 

 May, and departs in the beginning of October, is generally 

 distributed in England, Scotland, and Ireland, frequenting 

 plantations, low bushy hollows, orchards, and gardens. It usu- 

 ally catches its insect prey on wing, and returns to its station. 

 The nest, which is placed in the hole of a wall or tree, or on 

 a branch, against the wall, is small, compact, composed of 

 straws, moss, and hair, and lined with feathers. The eggs, 

 four or five in number, are nine-twelfths long, six and a half 

 twelfths broad, bluish- white, clouded and spotted with light 

 brownish-red and purplish-grey. 



Spotted Flycatcher. Grey Flycatcher. Bee-bird. Cherry- 

 chopper. 



Muscicapa grisola, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 328. Muscicapa 

 grisola, Temm. Man. d'Ornith. i. 152. Muscicapa grisola, 

 Spotted Grey Flycatcher, MacGillivray, Brit. Birds, iii. 518. 



45. MUSCICAPA ATRICAPILLA. PIED FLYCATCHER. 



Male with the upper parts black ; part of the forehead, a 

 patch on the wing, and the outer webs of the two outer tail- 

 feathers on each side, as well as all the lower parts, white. 

 Female and young greyish-brown above, brownish-white be- 

 neath. 



Male, 5J, 8, 3ft, , T 8 *, , &. Female, 5 T V, 3 T V. 



Arrives from the middle of April to the beginning of May, 

 and departs in September. Occurs in various parts of Eng- 

 land, but is nowhere common. The eggs are five or six, pale 

 blue, like those of the Redstart, eight and a half twelfths long, 

 and rather more than half an inch in breadth. 



Muscicapa atricapilla, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 396. Muscicapa 

 luctuosa, Temm. Man. d'Ornith. i. 155. Muscicapa luctuosa, 

 Pied Flycatcher, MacGillivray, Brit. Birds, iii. 524. 



