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INSESSORES. 
DENTIROSTRES. 
Muscieapa grisola, Spotted Flycatcher, 
2 
oh) 
” 
Ly) 
3° 
MuscicaPa. 
long as the fourth, the third the longest. 
MUSCICAPID A. 
MUSCICAPID &. 
THE SPOTTED FLYCATCHER. 
” 
rb) 
” 
>b) 
bb) 
°° 
Gobe-mouche gris, 
Muscicapa grisola. 
°° 
29 
” 
99 
9 
bb) 
Penn. Brit. Zool. vol. i. p. 471. 
MonraaGu, Ornith. Dict. 
Bewick, Brit. Birds, vol. i p. 213. 
Fem. Brit. An. p. 63. 
Srey, Brit. Ornith. vol. i. p. 141. 
Jenyns, Brit. Vert. p. 97. 
Goutp, Birds of Europe, pt. xviii. 
Temm. Man. d’Ornith. vol. i. p. 152. 
Generic characters.—Beak of moderate length, stout, angular ; 
broad and depressed at the base; compressed towards the point, which is slightly 
curved: the base surrounded with hairs directed forwards. Nostrils basal, lateral, 
oval, partly concealed by hairs. 
longer than the middle toe: the lateral toes nearly equal in length; the outer toe 
connected to the middle one; the claw of the hind toe stronger and more curved 
than either of the others. Wings—the first feather very short, the second not so 
Feet with the tarsus the same length, or even 
Tue Srorrep Frycatcuer is one of the latest, but, at 
the same time, one of the most regular of our summer 
