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INSECTIVOILE. 



Family MUSCICAPIDJE. ( Lesson.) 



Genus Muscicapa. ( Linnaeus.) 



RED-BREASTED FLYCATCHER. 



Muscicapa parva. 



Muscicapa parva, Meyer and Wolff, 1810. 



Temminck, 1820. 



Keyseeling and Blasius, 1840. 

 " " schinz. schlegel. 



Erythrosterna parva, Bonaparte, 1838. 



Gobe-Mouche rougeatre, Of the French. 



Rothkehliger Fliegenf anger, Of the Germans. 



Specific Characters. — Wings with, the bastard feather a third 

 of the length of the first primary; this shorter than the fourth, 

 equal to the eighth: no white speculum on the primaries. Two 

 thirds of tail quill feathers white, except the four middle ones, 

 which are brown entirely. Length five inches. 



This pretty and interesting species inhabits the vast 

 forests of Hungary, and the neighbourhood of Vienna, 

 in the summer, but only during the short time neces- 

 sary to rear its young. It is an annual migratory bird 

 in the Crimea, and accidental in France, Switzerland, 

 and Italy. M. Nordmann says that the young birds 



