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ORD. III. GEN. IX. FLYCATCHER. 



SPE. II. FEMALE PIED FLYCATCHER. 

 PI. 94*. 



The bill in this bird is olive brown : eye dark brown : a pale line of white 

 from the bafe of the bill pafies through the eye : the top of the head, neck, 

 back, and moulders, are of an olive brown colour: throat, bread, and 

 under parts, dull white : lefs wing coverts black, with broad white tips ; great- 

 er coverts black, with white edges, broad at the bafe, forming together with 

 the tips of the lefs coverts an oblong white marking on the wings, fomewhat 

 fimilar to that on the wing of the male : quills dull brown : tail dufky black : 

 legs black. 



The male and female in this fpecies are fo different in their appearance, that 

 any perfon not well acquainted with them would not conceive they were any 

 ways related, therefore I thought it highly necefiary to give a figure of the 

 female, as a defcription only could not give a juft idea of the difference. 



This fpecies inhabits the northern parts of thefe kingdoms, and is rarely {een 

 in the fouth of England. It is not common, even where it breeds. It feeds 

 on ripe fruit and infe&s, makes its neft in the hollow of a tree or branch, and 

 lays four or five eggs. For the egg fee PI. XXII. Fig. i. 



