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THE RED-BREASTED FLYCATCHER. 



MusciCAPA PARVA, Bechstcin. 



This small Flycatcher is one of those species which, like the 

 Isabelline and Desert Wheatears, have their usual habitat to the east 

 of our island, but in autumn and winter often migrate in a westerly 

 direction. Its occurrence in England was first noticed near Fal- 

 mouth, where two examples were seen for several days, and one — a 

 female — was shot on January 24th 1863. In the October following, 

 two were obtained in the Scilly Islands, and a third on November 

 5th 1865 ; on October 5th 1883, a young male was killed by Mr. 

 G. Bolam in his garden at Berwick-on-Tweed ; at Scarborough one 

 was obtained on October 23rd 1889; in Norfolk, one at Cley on 

 September 13th 1890 and another on October 4th 1894, and a third 

 at Rollesby Broad on December loth 1896. For Scodand the 

 only record as yet is from the Monach lighthouse, off North Uist, on 

 October 22nd 1893. Ireland furnishes one from the South Arklow 

 light, off Wexford ; one from the Tearaght light, and one from Tory 

 Island ; all three in October of various years. 



As a wanderer the Red-breasted Flycatcher has been taken in 

 Holland, Denmark, and off the south of Sweden, while a good many 

 examples have been obtained in autumn on Heligoland. It breeds 



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