Class II. SPOTTED FLY CATCHER. 471 



GENUS XXIV. FLY-CATCHER. 



Bill flatted at the base, almost triangular, 

 notched near the end of the upper mandi- 

 ble, and beset with bristles. 



Toes divided to their origin. 



Muscicapa. Grisola. M. sub- Zman. 45. 1. Spotted. 



fusca subtus albicans, collo The Cobweb. Morton Nor' 



longitudinaliter maculate, thampt. 426. 



crisso rufescente. Lath. Le Gobe-mouche, Muscicapa. . ' , 



Ind. orn. 467. id. Syn, iii. Brisson av, ii. 357. tah. 35. 



323. f. 3. Hist, d'ois. iii. 517. 



Stoparola. Aldr. av. ii. 324. PL Enl. bQ5. f. 1. 



A small bird without a name, Muscicapa Grisola. Gm. Lin. 



like the Stopparola of Al- 949. 



drovand. JVil. orn. 217. Br. Zool. 99. plate P. 2. f. 4. 



Ravi Syn. av. 77. Arct. Zool. ii. 83. 



XHE fly-catcher is a bird of passage, appears ' -^ 

 in the spring, breeds with us, and retires in Au- 

 gust. It builds its nest on the sides of trees, 

 towards the middle part, and sometimes, as Mor- 

 ton says, in the corners of walls where spiders 

 weave their webs. We have seen them followed 

 by four or five young, but never saw their eggs ;* 



* Mr. Montagu says, that the eggs are not much unlike those 

 of the Redbreast, but rather less, the rust-colored spots more 

 distinct, and not so much confined to the larger end. Ed. 



