and lined with rootlets and horse-hair, neatly woven together 
the outside being more or less covered with cobwebs and 
bits of lichen, so as to render it more difficult of detection. 
From four to six eggs are usually laid, which are bluish white 
in ground colour, mottled with reddish spots. 
The Pied Flycatcher—the only other British species— 
‘ is much more local, and is almost entirely confined 
i ‘* to North Wales, the northern counties of England, 
be. and the south of Scotland. It can be easily dis 
tinguished by its smaller size, 
and its black and white plumage. 
In general habits it is very 
similar to its better-known 
relation, but differs from it very 
much in its manner of nesting, 
since it almost invariably 
