. British birds & their eggs : with a new method of identification . rd, only occasionally uttering a Chat-like Tack ! The song is a weak warble. There is onlyone other bird with which, because of its similarlyblack-and-white markings, it might be confounded—the Pied Wagtail. But the latter is for themost part a bird of the water-side, takes its foodon the ground, goes with a walking gait (the PiedFlycatcher hops), and has a long and ceaselesslywagging tail. It is, moreover, generally distributedthroughout the British Isles, whilst the Pied Fly-catcher is restricted to the areas mentioned abov
. British birds & their eggs : with a new method of identification . rd, only occasionally uttering a Chat-like Tack ! The song is a weak warble. There is onlyone other bird with which, because of its similarlyblack-and-white markings, it might be confounded—the Pied Wagtail. But the latter is for themost part a bird of the water-side, takes its foodon the ground, goes with a walking gait (the PiedFlycatcher hops), and has a long and ceaselesslywagging tail. It is, moreover, generally distributedthroughout the British Isles, whilst the Pied Fly-catcher is restricted to the areas mentioned , the female of the Pied Flycatcher is quitedifferent in colouring from the male of her ownspecies, being grayish-brown in -the upper parts,and having the white of the lower parts , she has the white wing-patches and whitein the outer tail-feathers of the male. The nest isalways placed under cover, and I have found it in anatural cavity at the base of an oak. A furtherChat-like quality in the Pied Flycatcher is that shelays plain blue ui UJ o z Q. <
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