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Definition of Spotted flycatcher
1. Noun. Common European woodland flycatcher with greyish-brown plumage.
Exact synonyms: Muscicapa Grisola, Muscicapa Striata
Generic synonyms: Flycatcher, Old World Flycatcher, True Flycatcher
Group relationships: Genus Muscicapa, Muscicapa
Generic synonyms: Flycatcher, Old World Flycatcher, True Flycatcher
Group relationships: Genus Muscicapa, Muscicapa
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spotted Flycatcher
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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