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Spotted Flycatcher
Muscicapa ¡/risola, Lina. Syst. Nat., tom. i. p. 328.
Butalis (/risola, Boié, Bonap. Consp. Gea. Av., tom. i. p. 317.
montana, pinetorum, et grisola, Brehm, Vog. Deutsch. p. 224
T h e reasoning powers with which man is gifted are exercised oi
many different channels, that it is not likely there will ever fe
grasp more than the outlines o f the various branches of human V
pursuits of the geologist for him to be more than conversant will
the natural sciences, or that the botanist should be acquainted wit]
the necessity for man’s attention being devoted to some speciality, w
whole mind directed to the subject, will be attended with many bem
because he may instruct others in the leading features of the subj
that which would have been incomprehensible but for the light he ha*
o f the many curious facts such investigations elucidate. Few jx«n
more worthy o f our attention than the migration o f our tnN M r
the period o f their arrival amongst u s ; for it must be understood
species o f birds every spring, which, after summer is v-vn-
These migrants do not appear •nrouitaneoush. bat arc .—-U -fe
food upon which they subsist coming into being -
without stopping, until they reach some pratjmdM IWSpj
Flycatcher (Muscícapa u(rkapiíia) orasen
Cumberland, Westmoreland, Durham. rad V <
whole o f our island, a scattered tew reman»«*« Wrc -
well known, is exceedingly capricious i« the roaejwr- > ‘
o f our spring wanderers, so is the subject «i «W -:>c r-v- jrW. w*
before its upright, solitary form maybe seen =»>
this morning it has made its appearance as suddeuty m i f i
the heavens. Yesterday the standard rose-trees were aavj*rt«d by k .
if we have not taken necessary precautions, we tremble the con*
ghost among trees, the upright Irish yew. With a
welcome it, knowing that if we protect our flowering ahrkbu by
position on some upright post or stake supporting the hpktrywM
o r on the iron rails which fence off the adjoining meadow. AH
are mostly selected by those individuals that frequent our ■. ■
inmates causing any disturbance o f its wonted habits and mndr «I
this solitary mute may be seen perched on some elevated ¡,i
every passing insect, and when its full black eye detects ws? that k
captures it with a snap of its broad mandibles, and ret^r«-
distance its mate is acting in a precisely similar
during the summer. The Spotted Flycatcher is, ia
native birds.
Supposing it to be as late as the middle v i May b d m
duties, there will still be time for it to rear one w M
before fly-life is extinct to perforin a migration «ver ifca
o f which country both adults and young kj**ih1 the
spring, the pair which built their nest over thtt :i-
returning again, should no accident be&H them.
Surely it needs but a moment's thought, bv: ■
little travellers with interest. Let us •
journeys they have performed, how from the 9
Sussex, thence sped their way across the l U.w-
wliere, nothing daunted, they have braved «
tw n u e has wafted them across the s t n o tm i • -