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SPOTTED FLYCATCHER, 



(Muscicapa Grisola.]^ 



Mu. subfusca subtus albicans^ collo longitudinaliter maculato^ 

 crisso ritfescente. 



Brownish Flycatcher, beneath whitish, with the neck longitudi- 

 nally spotted, and the vent rufous. 



Muscicapa Grisola. Lin, Si/st. Nat. 1. 328. 20. — Gmel. Syst. 

 Nat. 1. g4g.—Briss. Orn. 2. 357- 1. pL 35./. 3.— Lath, Ind. 

 Orn. 2. 467. 1. 



Le Gobemouche. Buff. Hist. Nat, Ois. 4. 5l7.pl 25./. 2.— 



Buf. PI. Enl. 565. f. I, 

 Spotted Flycatcher. Pen, Brit. Zool, I. 134. — Leivin. Brit. 



Birds, 3, ^J.—Lath. Gen. Syn, 3, 323. 1 — Mont. Brit. Birds, 



\,^Bexdck, Brit, Birds, 1. \qQ. 



This species is the size of a Titlark, being 

 scarcely six inches in length : the beak is dusky : 

 the irides hazel : the whole upper parts of the 

 bird are brown j the head obscurely spotted with 

 dusky : breast and belly dull white : the shafts of 

 the feathers on the breast dusky: sides under the 

 wings tinged with dull orange : legs short and 

 black : both sexes nearly similar. 



These birds come to us late in the spripg, and 

 depart in September : they frequent orchards and 

 groves, particularly where cherries grow, of which 

 they are very fond, and will destroy great quanti- 

 ties, from whence they are called Cherry-suckers 

 in many parts of Kent : their nest is formed of 

 bents, moss, and such like materials, interwoven 

 with spiders' webs, and lined with feathers : the 



