At the close of the meeting Professor Hutton exhibited the skin of a flycatcher, which had been sent to him by Mr. Joshua Rutland, of Pelorus Valley, with the statement that it had been shot on a fruit-tree at Kenepuru, near the foot of Mount Stokes, by Mr. J. McMahon. It was a species of Muscicapa, and apparently M. grisola, the English spotted flycatcher. Professor Hutton was not aware that any of these birds had been turned out in New Zealand, and it was not a species likely to be imported. At the request of Mr. Rutland the skin had been given to the Canterbury Museum.
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Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Volume 24, 1891, Page 710
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106Note of the Occurrence in New Zealand of the English Spotted Flycatcher (Muscicapa grisola). Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Volume 24, 1891, Page 710
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