Bewick mentions an instance of a nest and young of this 

 bird having been fovuid in Axwell Park, near Newcastle-on- 

 Tyne. Bolton also met with them in the West Riding of 

 Yorkshire, and other straggling notices are given of its appear- 

 ance ; but Cumberland and Westmorland are its favourite 

 resort. Fig. 1. 



MUSCICAPA GRISOLA. (linn.) 

 Spotted Flycatcher, Beam-Bird, &c. 



Builds about the middle of June, in very various situa- 

 tions — in walls and bridges, where a stone or brick has been 

 pulled out, in stumps of trees in holes that are pretty open, 

 on the branches and amongst the roots of trees overhanging 

 a river, upon the boughs of wall-fruit trees, and in many other 

 such places. 



Its nest is formed of small twigs, roots, and moss, inter- 

 woven with spider's webs, and is lined with hair and feathers. 

 It lays four or five eggs, resembling Plate VIII., Figures 2 

 and 3. 



