148 PASSERES. MUSCICAPA. PirD 
Pied Flycatcher.—Muscicapa luctuosa, Tema. 
PLATE 43*. Figs. 2, 3. 
Muscicapa luctuosa, Temm. Man. d’Ornith, 1. p. 155. 
Gobe Mouche becfique, Temm. id. 
Museicapa alsicapills, Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 935. sp. 9.—Lath. Ind. Ornith. 
v. 1. p. 467. sp 
Rubetra wien: Briss. Orn. v. 3. p. 436. sp. 27. 
Syn. of | Schwartariickiger Flugenfanger, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. p. 431.—Meyer, 
adult male 1 Tasschenb. Deut. p. 232.—Frisch, t. 24. f. 2. 
insummet- | Pied Flycatcher, Br. Zool. 1. 351. t. 135.—Arct. Zool. 2. p- 3$1.— 
Lewin’s Br. Birds, 3. t. 38.—Lath. Syn. 3. p. 324. 2.—Mont. Ornith. 
Dict.—Jd. Supp.—Bewick’s Br. Birds, 1. p. t. 195. 
Motacilla ficedula, Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 936. sp. 10. 
Male, fe- | Sylvia ficedula, Lath. Ind. Ornith. 2. p. 517. sp. 28. 
male, and J Muscicapa muscipeta, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. 3. p. 435. 
young in Le Bec Figue, Buff: Ois. v. 5. p. 187.—Id. Pl. Enl. 668. 
a Schwartzgraiier Flugenfanger, Meyer, Tasschenb. Deut. v. 1. p. 213. 
Epicurean Warbler, Arct. Zool. v. 2. p. 419.— Lath. Syn. v. 4. p. 432. 
Occasional ‘This species has been treated as indigenous in some parts 
visitant. of our island by many of the British ornithologists, but 1 
have not hitherto been able to determine whether this is a 
well-grounded assertion; and I was led to doubt, from my 
“own experience being in direct oppesition to it. Within the 
last two or three years, several specimens of this bird have 
fallen under my inspection, all of which were killed in the 
spring or summer. I have inquired also in those districts 
where it has been most frequently met with, and consequent- 
ly where, if indigenous, it was most likely to have been found 
during the winter; but in no quarter has any trace of its 
permanent residence been discovered, and my inquiries have 
been answered, by stating it as a bird that evidently arrives 
Argument in the spring, and disappears in the autumn.—Its mode of 
against its 
beinga per- 
ea re- tate against the idea of its wintering in this island ; for, living 
sldent. 
life, and the species of food upon which it subsists, also mili- 
entirely on winged insects, it would be impossible for it to 
procure an adequate supply of food during the severity of the 
winter season. I should even be inclined to consider the few 
individuals met with in England during the swmmer, as birds 
that have been driven rather out of the regular track of their 
