PIED FLYCATCHER. 4I 



the city of Hereford. " A Spotted Flycatcher built its nest in the 

 corner of Mr. Thos. Andrew Knight's stove at Downton for several 

 successive years ; and he observed that the bird, when sitting, quitted 

 its eggs when the thermometer in the house was above 72^, and re- 

 sumed her place upon the nest, when the temperature fell below this." 



The food of the Spotted Flycatcher consists exclusively of 

 insects, and the way in which it darts out from its favourite perch, 

 a branch of a tree, a," post, or sometimes a croquet hoop, at every 

 insect that comes near, is very amusing to watch. 



MUSCICAPA ATRICAPILLA— Pied Flycatcher. 



A rare visitant to this county. The Rev. Clement Ley 

 has " noticed this bird on different occasions, in different and very 

 diverse localities in the western part of the county. In June, 1873, 

 I noticed a pair of these birds at the eastern end of Moccas pool. 

 From their anxiety they had probably a nest of young ones in the 

 immediate vicinity, and judging from the position of two nests I 

 found before, it would be in a small deep hole of some one of the 

 many old oak trees there." The Rev. W. Baskerville Mynors also 

 observed a Pied Flycatcher at Llanwarne in 1883. 



[MusiCAPA coLLARis — Whitc-collared Flycatcher.] 

 Of doubtful occurrence. 



[MusiCAPA PARVA — Rcd-brcastcd Flycatcher.] 

 Once in Cornwall. Twice in the Scilly Islands. 



[Section — Oscines Latirostres.] 



[Family — Hirundinid^e.] 



[Genus — Hirundo.] 



[Hirundo savignii — Chestnut-bellied Swallow.] 



Very doubtful indeed. 



