Rte C ARC Hak RR 
This is indigenous to Exg/and, but I believe nowhere com- 
mon. In moft plenty in Yorkfbire, Lancafbire, and Derby- 
frire. 
Le Gobe-mouche noir, Bri/. orn. 11. p..381. 13. 
HIS is above five inches and a half in length; and differs 
from the laft in having a mixture of grey on the upper 
parts, the thighs mixed brown and white, and three of the 
outer tail feathers white on the margin. 
Le Gobe-mouche noir 4 Collier, Buf..oi/: iv..p. 520. pl. 25. f. ~r—Pl. ent. 
365. f.2. 3.—Kramer el. p, 377. 16.—Frifch. pl. 24. 
HIS is like the firft; having only the outer tail feather 
white on the margin, but differs in the white on the neck 
paffing quite round it, like a collar. Thefe varieties the lefs fur- 
prize us, when we are told that the bird varies in plumage in dif- 
ferent feafons of the year*; the male only poffeffing the: full 
black during the fummer; after that, growing, by degrees, fo 
like the female, as not to be known from her. Hence fuch va- 
riety of defcription and fentiment concerning this bird. 
It is met with in Lorraine and Brie, where it comes the middle 
of April. Builds in fome hole of a tree, not very near the 
ground. The neft is only a few fibres, mixed with mofs, cover- 
ing the bottom of the hole. The eggs fix in number. The food, 
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