Definition of Spotted flycatcher

1. Noun. Common European woodland flycatcher with greyish-brown plumage.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Spotted Flycatcher

spotted crake
spotted cranesbill
spotted cucumber beetle
spotted cucumber beetles
spotted dog
spotted dogs
spotted dolphin
spotted dolphins
spotted dragonet
spotted dragonets
spotted eagle ray
spotted eagle rays
spotted fever
spotted flycatcher (current term)
spotted gum
spotted hemlock
spotted hyena
spotted lynx
spotted nothura
spotted nothuras
spotted owl
spotted ray
spotted redshank
spotted salamander
spotted sandpiper
spotted sea trout
spotted sickness
spotted skunk

Literary usage of Spotted flycatcher

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A History of British Birds by William YARRELL, Howard Saunders, Alfred Newton (1874)
"... rather shorter than the third, fourth, and fifth, which are the longest in the wing. THE spotted flycatcher is one of the latest, but, at the same time, ..."

2. Our Summer Migrants: An Account of the Migratory Birds which Pass the Summer by James Edmund Harting (1877)
"... will be made presently ; but it cannot be regarded in any other light than that of a rare and accidental visitant. The spotted flycatcher (Muscicapa ..."

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