BRITISH BIRDS. 
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fed fpecimen, was finilhed, we have been favoured: 
with a pair of thefe birds, fhot at Benton, in Nor- 
thumberland : We fuppofe them to be male and 
female, as one of them wanted the white fpot on 
the forehead ; in other refpe&s it was fimilar to 
the male : The upper parts in both were black, 
obfcurely mixed with brown ; the quill feathers 
dark reddifti brown ; tail dark brown, the exterior 
edge of the outer feather white ; legs black. 
SPOTTED FLYCATCHER. 
BEAM-BIRD. 
( Mufcicapa Grifola 9 Lin. — Le Gobe-mouche , Buff.) 
Length near five inches and three quarters : 
Bill dulky, bale of it whitilh, and befet with fhort 
briftles ; infide of the mouth yellow ; the head and 
back light brown, obfcurely fpotted with black; 
the wings dulky, edged with white ; the breaft and 
belly white ; the throat and fides under the wings 
tinged with red ; the tail dulky ; legs black. 
Mr White obferves, that the Flycatcher, of all 
our fummer birds, is the moll mute and the moll 
familiar. It vifits this ifland in the fpring, and dif- 
appears in September ; it builds in a vine or fweet- 
briar, againll the wall of a houfe, or on the end of 
a beam, and fometimes clofe to the poll of a door 
where people are going in and out all day long ; 
it returns to the fame place year after year : The 
