. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. MUSCICAPID^. 157. THE SPOTTED FLYCATCHER. MdsciCAPA GRfsoLA, Linnaeus. The Spotted Flycatcher is often said to be one of the latest spring- visitors to our islands ; nevertheless it has been observed exception- ally in our eastern counties as early as April 23rd, and at Carlisle one day earlier, while the usual date of its appearance in the south is about the first week in May ; and even in the remarkably cold hack- ward spring of 1888, I watched an evidently new arrival feeding in Kensington Gardens on the ist of that month. During the summer t
. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. MUSCICAPID^. 157. THE SPOTTED FLYCATCHER. MdsciCAPA GRfsoLA, Linnaeus. The Spotted Flycatcher is often said to be one of the latest spring- visitors to our islands ; nevertheless it has been observed exception- ally in our eastern counties as early as April 23rd, and at Carlisle one day earlier, while the usual date of its appearance in the south is about the first week in May ; and even in the remarkably cold hack- ward spring of 1888, I watched an evidently new arrival feeding in Kensington Gardens on the ist of that month. During the summer this species is generally distributed throughout Great Britain, be- coming rarer towards the north ; although even there it has been found nesting in Sutherland, Caithness, and as far westward as Skye ; occasionally in the Orkneys, which it sometimes visits in autumn, as well as the Shetlands. Mr. Ussher says that in Ireland it breeds in every county, even in the remote west. The Spotted Flycatcher breeds as far north as Tromso in Norway and Archangel in Russia; while southward it is tolerably abundant throughout Europe, nesting down to the northern shores of the Mediterranean; also on the African side, and in Asia Minor, Pales- tine, Persia, Turkestan, and Siberia as far as Irkutsk. In winter it visits India, Arabia, and Africa to Cape Colony. It leaves our islands and the northern portion of Europe in September, but in the south the abundance of insect food enables it to remain later; and in Asia Minor it has even been obtained late in Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Saunders, Howard, 1835-1907. London, Gurney and Jackson
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