Periodical 
Visitant. 
Haunt. 
146 PASSERES. MUSCICAPA. SPOTTED 
visit Europe are all summer visitants, or (as sometimes called) 
polar migrants, and are only resident during the period ne- 
cessary for the continuation of their kind. 
The food of the genus, according to their appellation, con- 
sists of insects, which they take upon wing, with great dexte- 
rity, not, like the Swallow tribe, by meeting with them du- 
ring their flight, but by sallies from their perched situation at 
the various flies that pass them. The male birds of some of 
the species are subject to a double moult, or rather to a par- 
tial change in the colour of the plumage, on the approach of 
spring, or the pairing season. During the rest of the year, 
they resemble the females. In one foreign section (the Ty- 
rans of VEILLoT), they appear to be nearly allied to the ge- 
nera Lanius and Edolius. Some of the members, also, in the 
form of the bill, approach to the genera 'Todus and Platyryn- 
chus, and others again to the smaller species of Sylvia. 
Spotted Flycatcher.—Muscicapa grisola, Linn. 
PLATE 43*. Fig. 1. 
Muscicapa grisola, Linn. Syst. 1. p. 328.820.—Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 949.—Lath. 
Ind. Ornith. 2. p. 467.—Briss. 2. p. 357. 1. t. 35. f. 3.—Raii, Syn. p. 81. 
7.—Will. p. 153. 171. 
Le enn proprement dit, Buff: Ois. v. 4. p. 517. t. 25.—Jd. Pl. Enl. 
565. f. 1. 
Gobe-mouche, gris Temm. Man. d’Ornith. v. 1. p. 152. 
Gecleckter Flugenfanger, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. v. 3. p. 421.—Meyer, 'Tas- 
schenb. Deut. v. 1. p. 211.—Frisch, t. 22. f. 2. 6. 
Spotted Flycatcher, Br. Zool. 1. p. 350. No. 134.—Lewin’s Br. Birds, 3. 
t. 87.—Lath. Syn. 3. p. 323. 1.—Mont. Ornith. Dict.—Bewick’s Br. Birds, 
v. 1. p. 196.—Jd. Supp. p. 30. 
Provincial, Beam-Bird, Rafter, Bee-Bird. 
This is one of the latest summer visitants of the Passerine 
Order, seldom making its appearance before the latter part of _ 
May, or until the woods are in complete foliage, when the 
particular insects also that compose its food are in full vigour 
and maturity. It is generally dispersed throughout the 
island, particularly in all wooded districts.—It frequents our 
