156 FLYCATCHER. 



1— SPOTTED FLYCATCHER. 



Muscicapa Grisola, Ind.Orn.W. 467. Lin. i. 328. Gm. Lin.'i. 949. Id. reise,\v. p. 



203. Bris. iii. t. 35. f. 3. Id. Svo. i. 257. Rail, 81. Will. 153. 171. 7. 7rf. 



-Ercg7. 211. Borowsk. iii. 176. Germ, i v. t. 3S3. Tew. illan. d'Orn. p. 99. 7rf. 



£</. ii. p. 152. 

 Stoparola Aldrovaudi, Raii, 77. A. 1. JFi//. 153. 159. Jd. Z?ng7. 210. 217. Zinnan. 



Uov. 45. t. 6. fig. 30. 

 Sylvia fusca, Klein, Stem. 14. 1. 16. f. 9. a — c. 

 Curruca subfusca, Frisch, t. 22. f. 1. b. 



Sylvia pestilentialis, Klein, Av. 79. 12. Id. Ov. 25. t. 10. f. 7. 8. 

 Der gestreifte Fliegenfanger, Naturf. xvii. 9S. 99 ? 

 Geebeekter Fliegenfanger, Bechst. Dints', iii. 421. 

 Gobe-Mouehe, Bvf.iv. 517. t. 25. 2. PI. enl. 565. 1. 

 Cobweb, Morton's North. 426. 



Beam Bird, Collins's Birds, pi. 12. f. 5. male— pi. 10. f. 2. female. 

 Spotted Flycatcher, Gen. Syn.m. 323. Arct. Zool. Sup. p. 64. Br. Zoo/, i. No. 134. 



Jrf./o/. 99. t. P. 2. f. 4. Zd. 1812. i. p. 471. Bolton's Birds, pi. 37. Shaw's Zool. 



x. 332. Bewick, i. p. 196. Levin's Br. Birds, iii. pi. 87. Walcot, ii. t. 224. 



Pult. Cat. Dors. p. 11. Orn. Diet. Lin. Trans, i. 126. 7d. iv. p. 16. 



SIZE of the White Throat ; length five inches and a half. Bill 

 dusky, base beset with short bristles; inside of the mouth yellow ; 

 irides hazel ; head large, brownish, obscurely spotted with black : 

 back mouse-colour; wings and tail dusky; quills edged with white; 

 breast and belly white; throat, and sides under the wings, dashed 

 with red : legs black. Male and female much alike. 



This bird comes into England the beginning of May, and departs 

 in September ; builds against any part of a tree that will support 

 the nest, often in the hollow, caused by the decay of a large limb; 

 or hole in a wall ; frequently on an old post, or beam of a barn, and 

 found in the same place one season after another : the nest is chiefly 

 composed of moss, often with a mixture of wool and feathers ; the 

 e«'gs four or five, pale, and marked with reddish spots ; feeds chiefly, 

 if not wholly, on insects, which it collects on the wing ; seen sitting 

 on a branch, post, or the like ; and when an insect flies past, it springs 



