XXIV. 

 THE PARADISE FLY-CATCHER 



[HERE is a bird which comes and goes 

 every summer, and is a bird of passage, 

 like the Swallow and the Cuckoo. 



It is not very common, but is more 

 often seen in the northern counties of England 

 than in any other part of our island. When 

 August comes, and while the winter is yet a great 

 way off, it takes its departure. The colours it 

 wears are white, and brown, and gray. It has not 

 the radiant hues of the Tropics, and yet it belongs 

 to a Tropical family. We call it the Fly-catcher. 

 Its relations are scattered far and wide. One 

 of them is found as far north as Siberia and 



