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Britain and Ireland, becoming rarer in the north. Breeds 

 throughout Europe as far north as lat. 70°, and in Asia as far 

 east as Lake Baikal, -wintering in Africa as far south as the 

 Cape. 



Muscicapa atricapilla. Pied Flycatcher. 



Muscicapa Atricapilla, Linnaus, S. N. i. p. 326 

 (1766). 



Muscicapa luctuosa, Naum. ii. p. 231 ; Macg. iii. p. 524. 

 Muscicapa atricapilla, Hewitson, p. 75 ; Gray, p. 79 ; Yarr. 



ed. 2, i. p. 177; id. ed. 3, i. p. 187; Newton, i. p. 229; 



Gould, ii. pi. 17; Hurting, p. 10; Dresser, iii. p. 453. 

 Pied Flycatcher, Yarr. ed. 1, i. p. 169. 



Atricapilla = black-haired. Cf. Blackcap. 



A local summer visitant to Great Britain, breeding chiefly 

 in the lake-districts of England and in Wales, and in the 

 eastern and midland counties of Scotland; unknown in 

 Ireland. Breeds throughout Europe, ranging as far north as 

 the Arctic Circle, and wintering in Africa down to the 

 Gambia. Eastwards it occurs as far as Persia. 



[Muscicapa collaris. Wsite-collared Fltcatches. 



Muscicapa collaris, Bechstein, Naturg. Deutschl. iv. 

 p. 495 (1795). 



Muscicapa melanoptera, Naum. xiii. p. 245. 

 Muscicapa collaris, Naum. xiii. p. 247; Newton, i. p. 232; 

 Gould, ii. pi. 18 ; Dresser, iii. p. 459. 



Collaris — pertaininf; to the neck, collum, from its distinctive white neck. 



Mr. Gould {I. c.) remembered having seen at a bird-stufiFer's 

 shop a specimen of this bird which was said to have been 

 killed in Britain ; but there is no other record. It breeds 

 in Southern and Central Europe, rarely extending to the 

 northern parts.] 



