198 MR. F. M. OGILVIE ON THE RED-BREASTED FLY-CATCHER. 
inner web of fourth feather, which are nearly black) ; four central 
feathers (and apical portion of other feathers) dark brown or 
black. 
By dissection — ? ; ovanj large and well defined (no ova visible 
on examination with a lens). 
Crop, empty. Stomach, containing large quantity of insect 
remains. These were very kindly examined for me by Mr. 
James Edwards, F.E.S., of Norwich, and proved to consist mainly 
of Earwigs ; there were also fragments of two species of ground 
Beetles ( Dyochirius globosus, Dichirotriclius obsoletus) and of an 
homopterous insect, Acoceplialus nerosus. 
These notes were taken a few hours after death. Mr. T. E. Gunn, 
E.L.S., dissected the bird before me, and I am also indebted to 
him for verifying my description and measurements and for other 
assistance. 
This Fly-catcher I shot on the beach at Cley-next-the-Sea, 
September 13th, 1890. I flushed it two or three times from 
“the Scrub” (as the Sea-blite which covers the beach there is 
called) before I was able to secure it, following it for about five 
minutes. It uttered no note during this time. Its flight was 
graceful and buoyant, and always at some height from the ground, 
differing in this from the other birds I saw in the scrub, chiefly 
warblers (Willow Wrens, Cliilfchaffs, &c.), which flew very low, and 
were flushed with some difficulty from their hiding-places. 
During the week ending September 13th the weather was very 
fine, with hot sun and light wind, mostly from the west and 
north-west; on the 13th wind was east at daylight, then north- 
cast, going round to south in the afternoon. 
The descriptions of this Fly-catcher in our latest ornithological 
text-books are not remarkable for their accuracy. In the fourth 
edition of Yarrell (Professor Newton), p. 228, the tail is said to 
consist of ten feathers in place of twelve ; and Mr. Saunders, in 
his lately published Manual, p. 154, while he describes the tail as 
of twelve feathers, states that they all have conspicuous white 
bases, except the central pair which are black. In this specimen 
the four outer feathers on either side have more or less white on 
their basal halves, but the four central feathers are black. 
Mr. Sharpe [British Museum Catalogue, vol. iv. p. 161] perpetuates 
the same error, “ two centre tail-feathers dark brown, the remainder 
