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sists of insects, which they take upon wing with great dexte- 

 rity, not, like the Swallow tribe, by meeting with them du- 

 ring their flight, but by sallies from their perched situation 

 at the various flies that pass them. The male birds of some 

 of the species are subject to a double moult, or rather to a 

 partial change in the colour of the plumage, on the approach 

 of spring, or the pairing season. During the rest of the year, 

 they resemble the females. 



SPOTTED FLYCATCHER. 



MuscicAPA GRisoLA, Linn. 



PLATE XLIII'. Fig. 1. 



Muscicapa grisola, Linn. Svst. 1. p. 328. 20 Gmel. Svst. 1. p. 949 Lath. 



Ind. Ornith. 2. p. AGl.—Briss. 2. p. 357- 1- 1. 35. f.'3 Raii Svn. p. 81. 



7 — Will. p. 153. 171. 

 Le Gobe-mouche, proprement dit, Buff. Ois. v. 4. p. 51?. t. 25 Id. PI. 



Enl. 5G5. f. 1. 

 Gobe-mouche gris, Tern. Man. d'Ornith. v. 1. p. 152. 

 Gecleckter riugenfanger, Bechst. Natiirg. Deut. v. 3. p. 421 Meyer, Tas- 



schenb. Deut. v. 1. p. 211 Frisch, I. 22. f. 2. 6. 



Spotted Flycatcher, 13r. Zool. 1. p. 350. No. 134 Lra-iw's Br. Birds, 3. 



t. 87 — Lath. Svn. 3. p. 323. \.—Mont. Ornith. Diet Bewick's Br. Birds, 



V. 1. p. VJG.—'ld. Supp. p. 30. 



Provincial — Beam-Bird, Eafter, Bee-Bird. 



This is one of our latest summer visitants, seldom making Periodical 

 its appearance before the latter part of May, or until the ^'^^^'^'*"''" 

 woods are in complete foliage, when the particular insects 

 also that compose its food are in full vigour and maturity. 

 It is generally dispersed throughout the island, particularly 

 in all wooded districts. It frequents our gardens and or- 

 chards during the season of incubation, and frequently builds 

 upon the branches of fruit-trees that are nailed against walls, 

 and sometimes in the forks and decayed holes of standard 

 trees. 



Its nest, which is formed of moss and small twigs, lined Nest, &c. 

 with hair and feathers, is often placed also upon the ends of 

 the beams or rafters in garden-houses, and other out-build- 



