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Title: An illustrated manual of British birds
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Saunders, Howard, 1835-1907
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: London, Gurney and Jackson
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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urements 97 by •68 in. In summer the food of theWaxwing consists of crane-flies and other insects, but later on hips,juniper and other berries are eaten voraciously. The only note ofthis almost silent bird is a low cir-ir-ir-ir-re (Seebohm). Adult male : frontal band, lores, eye-region and chin black ; fore-head and sides of the crest chestnut-brown; general plumage lightgreyish-brown, shading into ash-grey on the rump and abdomen;wing-coverts black, tipped with white; secondaries spotted withwhite at the end of the outer web, and with tips like red sealing-wax ; primaries black, with V-shaped white and yellow borders ;tail blackish, terminated by a broad yellow band, and, in maturebirds, with small red wax-like tips ; under tail-coverts chestnut; bill,legs and feet black. Length 7-5 in.; wing 4-5 in. Female : ratherduller, with fewer wax-like tips and generally without the white edgesto the inner webs of the primaries. Young : browner and withoutthe black throat. -MUSCICAlID.E. 149
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THE SPOTTED FLYCATCHER.MusciCAPA GRisoLA, Linnceus. The Spotted Flycatcher is often said to be one of the latestspring-visitors to our islands ; nevertheless it has been observedexceptionally in our eastern counties as early as April 23rd, and atCarlisle one day earlier, while the usual date of its appearancein the south is about the first week in May; and even in thisremarkably cold backward spring of 1888, I watched an evidentlynew arrival feeding in Kensington Gardens on the istof that month.During the summer it is generally distributed throughout GreatBritain, becoming rarer towards the north ; although even there ithas been found nesting in Sutherland and Caithness, and to as farwestward as Skye. At present it appears to be merely a wanderer tothe Orkneys and Shetlands. Mr. More states tliat it is a regularsummer-visitor to Ireland, but on the west side it does not arrivebefore the latter half of May. The Spotted Flycatcher breeds as far north as Troniso in Norwayand Archangel in

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