,10 TIIE NATURAL HISTORY* 
The SPOTTED FLY-CATCHER. 
The plumage on the back is of a moufe colour; beneath 
■whiteifh; the neck is flreaked ; the feathers under the tail 
arc of a redd i fh cad. 
This bird is migratory; it arrives in April, 
and leaves us in September; it frequents woods, 
feeking folitary, and fheltered feenes, though fome- 
times it infefts our orchards, and is very deftruc- 
tive to cherries; on this account in Kent, it is 
known by the name of the Cherry Sucker. 
It feems a melancholy, and rather a ftupid bird; 
building its neft without any appearance of con¬ 
cealment, againft trees, or upon bufhes. Their 
nefts are dumbly made, and not always with the 
fame materials, fometimes with mofs only, and 
fometimes with wool, and large fibres of roots- 
intermixed. 
They chiefly feed on infeds, and colled them 
on the wing. They feldom alight upon the ground, 
or ufe their legs in running ; but perched upon a 
branch, or poft, watch the infeds as they are 
flying near, fpring after them, and again return 
to their place.' 
The FAN-TAIL FLY-CATCHER, 
Inhabits New Zealand ; it is a very familiar 
bird, and is cafily tamed ; it will then fit upon 
any 
