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captors, busily engaged in capturing fl.es ; | act.ons, whde so |g | BW i the
Spotted Flycatcher in darting off, and returning to, the same branch. From th e o n d a ry q | H
greater coverts being edged with rufous instead of bemg of a un.form erne,eons, I tank d. is a j o u g
of the year. Its note was louder than the suppressed one of the common spec.es | g B W M 1 .
M M A notice of m specimen from the same pen will he found m the • Zoologmt for 1863, p. 8841 ,
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Ahbev the residence of Augustus Smith, Esq. After watching it for a few momente we came to a con-
■ ■ ■ M l and I fetched a small walking-stick gun, and shot it. Whde we were H B H H H M ■ 1 it flew about. On taking up the bird, the eye struck us as bemg very large and full t had
I . ale huffy rim all round it. The tawny colour of the throat and breast was not very strong, but was
o n " r i d e s of the breast. The sex could no, be determined, owing to .ts bemg ,00 much
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snreads it out, or raises it suddenly above its wings.
■■ The Red-breasted Flycatcher, like the rest of its family, lives upon fl.es and other insects I t bu.lds .ts
nest in the forks of the branches of trees ." -H is to r y o f tie Bird, o f Europe not observed,n the Bntvth Isles,
m m speaking o f the bird as observed by him in India, s a y s - - I n spring b , the end1 offtfarch. or
the bcrinning of April, the male, by a partial moult, assumes a bright orange-rufous ohm and th oat and
the lores, cheeks, and sides of the neck become tolerably pure ashy. Hus livery .s agam cast
dllt”Z s M l little bird is found throughout the whole of India, from the base of the H.malayas to
the e l m e south, a n d in Ceylon; also in B.rmah, aud from China to Afghanistan
towards northern and central India than in the south, and may be seen in every grove. | | _ g H |
or six maybe observed sporting about the trunk of some mango or tamarmd tree, now g H H M B I M
then darting after an insect in the air, or alighting on the ground to p.ck one up I t ,s however fre
queutlyseen singly, and its actions much remind one of those o f the Brirish Rob.n. - B , r d s o f Indut,
' “ w h™ Mly adult the two sexes differ considerably, the male only having the dull rufous throat.
The figures represent a male and a female, of the natural size.