Old World Flycatchers (Muscicapidae)

Spotted Flycatcher (Muscicapa striata) - HBW 11, p. 114

French: Gobemouche gris German: Grauschnäpper Spanish: Papamoscas Gris

Taxonomy: Motacilla striata Pallas, 1764, Holland.
Forms a superspecies with M. gambagae, and sometimes regarded as conspecific. Seven subspecies recognized.

Subspecies and Distribution:

striata (Pallas, 1764) - breeds Europe E across Ural Mts to W Siberia (R Irtysh), and NW Africa (N Morocco E to N Tunisia); non-breeding W, E & S Africa.
balearica von Jordans, 1913 - breeds Balearic Is; non-breeding W & SW Africa.
tyrrhenica Schiebel, 1910 - breeds Corsica and Sardinia; non-breeding probably Africa.

See all 7 subspecies

striata (Pallas, 1764) - breeds Europe E across Ural Mts to W Siberia (R Irtysh), and NW Africa (N Morocco E to N Tunisia); non-breeding W, E & S Africa.
balearica von Jordans, 1913 - breeds Balearic Is; non-breeding W & SW Africa.
tyrrhenica Schiebel, 1910 - breeds Corsica and Sardinia; non-breeding probably Africa.
inexpectata Dementiev, 1932 - breeds Crimea; non-breeding Africa.
neumanni Poche, 1904 - breeds islands in Aegean Sea E to Caucasus and N & W Iran and S to Cyprus and Levant, also C Siberia (R Irtysh E to W Transbaikalia); non-breeding E & S Africa.
sarudnyi Snigirewski, 1928 - breeds E Iran and Turkmenistan E to Tien Shan, Pamirs and N & W Pakistan; non-breeding probably E & S Africa.
mongola Portenko, 1955 - breeds SE Altai E to SE Transbaikalia and N Mongolia; non-breeding probably E & S Africa.