142 THE BIRDS OF KENT 



PIED FLYCATCHEK. 



Muscicapa atricajnlla, Linnseus. S.N., i., p. 326 



(1766). 



The following occurrences of this species in Kent are 

 few, and no douht the bird is overlooked. Deal : " On 

 September 17, 1850," says Mr. C. A. Delmar, "I 

 observed a curious little bird engaged in catching flies 

 near some bushes. On shooting it, it proved to be a 

 Pied Flycatcher." 



On September 17, 1869, at Cobham, Lord CHfton 

 states : " I was attracted by a small bird, looking like 

 a miniature hen Chalhnch, flitting about the branches 

 of an oak : after some observation I perceived that it 

 was a Pied Flycatcher in the brown and white plumage." 



Mr. "W. Prentis, in his Birds of Bainham, says one of 

 a pair was shot in a wood-lane, by a small pond, May 1, 

 1871. It is in the collection of Dr. F. Plomley, at 

 Dover. Mr. G. Dowker records it from the Stourmouth 

 district. A specimen is in Mr. W. Oxenden Hammond's 

 collection in the Canterbury Museum, which was obtained 

 at Elm stone. Captain J. D. Cameron says it has been 

 shot at Bethersden in Kent, and the Eev. C. H. Fielding 

 records a specimen from Eamsgate. Mr. J. F. Green 

 one at the " Cedars," Lee, Kent. 



