158 OUR SUMMER MIGRANTS. 



autumn appears to be south-east by south. Mr. 

 Wright has noticed it as very common in spring 

 and autumn in Malta, arriving there somewhat 

 later than the Pied Flycatcher. It has been 

 noticed by Mr. J. H. Gurney, jun., as plentiful 

 in Algeria in summer. Captain Shelley met 

 with it once at Alexandria in May, when it was 

 probably migrating; and Ruppell includes it 

 without hesitation amongst the birds of North 

 Africa.^ In the middle of October, Von Heuglin 

 found that it was not rare near Tadjura, and 

 somewhat later in the year on the Somali coast. 

 In Palestine Canon Tristram found it breeding 

 in all parts of the country, its favourite nesting- 

 places being in the branches of old gnarled 

 trees overhanging the paths (" Ibis," 1867, p. 

 361). How far eastward it extends I am not 

 sure, as in China and Japan an allied species 

 appears to take its place. But south of the 

 Mediterranean it penetrates to South Africa. 

 Mr. Layard says,^ " the common European fly- 

 catcher has been brought by Mr. Andersson from 



1 " Syst. Uebers. d. Vogel N.-O. Afrika's," p. 61. 



2 "Birds of South Africa," p. 148. 



