. A history of British birds . 220 PASSERES. MUSCICAPID/E. MusciCAPA GRisoLA, Liimaeus*.THE SPOTTED FLYCATCHER. ill use Icapa gr i sola. MusciCAPA, Linnceusf.—Bill of moderate length, broad and depressed at thebase; compressed and slightly curved towards the point. Nostrils basal,lateral, and partly concealed by the frontal plumes. Gape beset with small, the tarsus about the same length as the middle toe, which is muchlonger than the lateral toes. Wings long and pointed, the first primary veryshort, the second rather shorter than the third, fourth, and fifth, which
. A history of British birds . 220 PASSERES. MUSCICAPID/E. MusciCAPA GRisoLA, Liimaeus*.THE SPOTTED FLYCATCHER. ill use Icapa gr i sola. MusciCAPA, Linnceusf.—Bill of moderate length, broad and depressed at thebase; compressed and slightly curved towards the point. Nostrils basal,lateral, and partly concealed by the frontal plumes. Gape beset with small, the tarsus about the same length as the middle toe, which is muchlonger than the lateral toes. Wings long and pointed, the first primary veryshort, the second rather shorter than the third, fourth, and fifth, which arethe longest in the wing. The Spotted Flycatcher is one of the latest, but, at thesame time, one of the most regular of our of Selborne remarks, even more than once, in hismiscellaneous observations published in Jesses Gleanings,that it arrives on the 20th of May, Selby says, this birdseldom makes its appearance till the oak-leaf is partly ex-panded, but begins its nest almost immediately on its arrival. * Syst. Nat. Ed. 12, i. p. 328 (1866).
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