122 THE RED-BREASTED FLYCATCHER. 



and consequently the Red-breasted Flycatcher is 

 now placed in the genus Siphia, a little group of 

 parti-coloured Muscicapidce, which are principally 

 Indian in habitat. 



The nesting-home of the Red-breasted Fly- 

 catcher is in Po'merania, the Baltic Provinces, 

 and in the vicinity of St. Petersburg, whence 

 it extends to Central Asia, while it winters in 

 Western and Central India. In Eastern Siberia 

 and Northern China it is replaced by a closely 

 allied species (S. albicilla), whiA .winters in 

 Eastern India and the Burmese countries. Here 

 we have another instance of the eastern and 

 western distribution of two species, such as we 

 have already seen in the case of the Red-footed 

 Kestrels, and the Blue-headed Wagtails. 



Mr. Seebohm has described the finding of the 

 nest of this rare Flycatcher in Pomerania : — " I 

 soon heard a song which was new to me, but 

 I followed it a long time before I could see the 

 bird. It was a very unobstrusive song, inter- 

 mediate between the notes of the Robin and the 

 Redstart. For some time the bird kept at 

 the top of the beeches. It was as restless as 

 a Redstart, and we followed it in vain, until, 



