BED-BEEASTED FLYCATCHEB.
MUSCICAPA PARVA, Bechst.
Muscicapa parva, Bechstein, Naturg. Deutschl. iv. p. 505
(1795); Naum. ii. p. 341 ; Yarr. ed. 4, i. p. 234;
Dresser, iii. p. 465.
Gobe-mouche rougedtre, French; Kleiner Fliegenfänger,
German.
Several examples of this very pretty little bird have
occurred in England, but as I have no personal acquaintance
whatever with it in a state of nature, I must refer
my readers, for details as to its habits and occurrences
in this country, to the standard works on British orni-
thology. It is an Eastern species, and only occurs
irregularly in Western Europe. The only specimen of
this bird that I ever saw in the flesh I procured in the
market at Nice in the autumn of 1858.
