FLYCATCHER. 159 



Inhabits Africa, in the neighbourhood of the Cape of Good 

 Hope ; found in the Hottniqua Country, especially the Pays de 

 Natal; making the nest, among the bushes, .of grass and hair. The 

 note of the male expresses the words Tzirer chrest : the female has 

 no note whatever. At first sight it resembles our Spotted Flycatcher, 

 but it is more than one inch shorter. In our common one the wings 

 reach three-fourths on the tail, which is somewhat forked, but in this 

 the tail is rather rounded at the end. 



M. Levaillant observes, that his bird is subject to vary, some 

 having the wings and tail quite white ; and the young birds often 

 with the edges of the feathers inclining to rufous ; the brown also 

 tinged with that colour, especially on the rump. 



5.— GOLDFINCH FLYCATCHER. 



Muscicapa atricapilla, Ind. Om. ii. 467. Lin. i. 326. Gm. Lin. i. 935. Kramer, 



377. No. 16. Jacq. Vog. 41. t. 39. Borowsk. iii. 176. 

 Luscinia alis variegatis, Klein, 75. 12. 

 Emberiza luctuosa, Scop. Ann. i. No. 215. 

 Rubetra Anglicana, Bris. iii. 436. Id. 8vo. i. 271. 



Die schwarze Fliegenfanger, Naturf. xvii.97. Schmid, Vog. p. 68. t. 55. 

 Traquetd'Angleterre, Buf. v. 222. 



Muscicapa luctuosa, Tern. Man. Ed. ii. p. 157. Id. Ed. ii. p. 155. 

 Curruca tergo nigro, Frisch, t. 24. 



(Enanthe nostra quarta, Raii, 77, A. 5. Will. 170. Gerin. iv. 381. 

 Coldfinch, Will. Engl. 236. Edw. pi. 30. 

 Pied Flycatcher, Gen. Syn. iii. 324. Br. Zool. i. No. 135. Id. 1812. i. p. 473. Arct. 



Zool. ii. 391. B. Id. Sup. 64. Bolton, Birds, i. pi. 39, 40. Bewick, i. pi. in p. 



195. Lewin, Birds, iii. t. 88. Walcot, ii. 225. Donov. i. pi. 22. Om. Diet. 



Shaw's Zool. x. 320. pi. 30. 



LENGTH four inches and three quarters. Bill black; irides 

 hazel; plumage merely black and white; the upper parts of the 

 body, wings, and tail are black ; forehead and under parts white ; 

 there is also a white spot on the wing ; two, and sometimes three of 



