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+ PIED FL. 
DescRIPTION. 
FEMALEe 
Pigs Ya Cu Ate dy en yr. Eas 
they are faid to be very great deftroyers. Hence, in Kent, are 
known by the name of Cherry-fuckers. 
They alfo frequent the warmer parts of the European conti- 
nent. I believe found nowhere more northward than in our 
realms. In the fouthern parts of Rufia pretty common. 
A finaller variety is found beyond Lake Baikal *. 
Mufcicapa atricapilla, Lia. Syf. i. p. 236. 9. — Frifch. pl. 24. — Kram. el. 
De 377s 
Le Traquet d’Angleterre, Brif- orn. ill. p. 436. 27.—Buf. oif. v. p. 222. 
Coldfinch, Raii Syn. p. 77. A. 5—Will. orn. p. 236.—Edw. pl. 30. 
Pied Flycatcher, Br. Zool. i. N° 135.—Ard. Zool. 
Br. Muf. Lev. Mu/, 
IZE of the Whin Chat: length four inches and three quar- 
ters. Bill black: irides hazel: the colours of the bird 
merely black and white: the upper parts of the body, wings, and 
tail, are black ; the firft of them inclined to dufky, and the fore- 
head and under parts white; there is alfo a {pot of white on the 
wing, and the outer tail feather is white on the outer web, almoft 
to the end+: the upper tail coverts are black and white 
mixed {: the legs are black. 
The female is brown where the male is black. It wants the 
white on the forehead ; and the under parts are dufky white: the 
white on the wings 1s alfo lefs pure. 
* Mr. Pennant. 
+ Willughby’s bird had two of the outer tail feathers white on the margins. 
t In fome wholly black. 
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