158 FLYCATCHER. 



Inhabits the rocky and sunny places in Dauuria, where it is not 

 uncommon ; sings sweetly, and even in the night, like the Greater 

 Nightingale, to which it is not inferior in melody, and fully supplies 

 the place of that bird, the Nightingale not being found in Siberia. 



3 —SMALL FLYCATCHER. 



Muscicapa parva, Gobe-mouche rougeatre, Tern. Man. d'Om. p. 103. Id. Ed. ii. p. 

 159. Bechst. Nat. Deuts.m. p. 442. 



LENGTH four inches, five lines. At the base of the bill some 

 very long hairs; the plumage above reddish, inclining to rufous 

 towards the rump ; quills edged, within and without, with rufous ; 

 the greater and middle wing coverts marked with a small rufous spot 

 at the ends; round the eyes, and the throat yellowish white; the tail 

 dusky brown ; the side feathers white from the base, towards the end 

 brown, shaded with rufous on the outer webs. The female does not 

 differ from the male ; the young are more inclined to rufous. 



Inhabits the forests of Germany in the breeding season ; feeds on 

 insects ; and makes the nest between the forks of trees. 



4.—WAVED FLYCATCHER. 



L'Ondule, Levail. Afr. iv. 24. pi. 156. f. 1. 2. 



THIS is four inches and a half long. Bill and legs black ; 

 plumage in general dusky brown, deeper on the wings and tail, the 

 last rounded, the feathers of it with pale margins ; under parts 

 dusky white ; across the breast dusky. 



The female is smaller, the colours paler, and the breast whiter, 

 as well as the margins of the wing feathers ; in both a pale streak 

 between the nostrils and eye ; and from the bill to the eye dusky. 



