176 MUSCICAPID ®. 
is rare in Scotland. Mr. Selby observed it in Sutherland- 
shire in June 1834; and it is also found in Denmark, 
Norway, and Sweden. It is a common bird on the Eu- 
ropean Continent. It is found at Corfu, Sicily, Malta, 
Crete, and eastward as far as Erzeroom, and its range 
extends to western and southern Africa, even as far as 
the Cape. 
The beak is dark brown; the irides hazel; the head 
and the whole of the upper surface of the body and wing- 
coverts hair brown, the quills and tail-feathers being a 
little darker, with a few dark brown spots on the top of 
the head; the tertials with a narrow margin of light 
brown; the under parts dull white, with a patch of light 
brown across the upper part of the breast, and a few dark 
brown streaks or spots upon that and the chin, with a 
clear white space between; the sides and flanks tinged 
with yellowish brown ; legs, toes, and claws, black. 
Males and females are alike in plumage. 
The whole length of the bird is five inches and five- 
eighths. From the carpal joint to the end of the longest 
quill-feather, three inches and three-eighths: the first fea- 
ther of the wing very short, only about one third of the 
length of the second; the second very little shorter than 
the fourth ; the third feather the longest of the whole. 
The young, when ready to leave the nest, are truly 
Spotted Flycatchers, each brown feather having a buff- 
coloured tip, the ends of the great wing-coverts forming 
a pale wood-brown bar across the wing; under surface 
white. After their first moult, they may be distinguished 
from older birds by the broader buff-coloured outer mar- 
gins of the tertials. 
