54 A HAND-LIST OF BRITISH BIRDS. 



visitor, as in Shetland s ; in Fair Isle recorded on both migrations, 

 but chiefly from late May to mid- June. 



Distribution. — Abroad. — Breeds in Europe from Archangel and 

 Tromso to ^Mediterranean and in Atlas Mountains in north-west 

 Africa. Winters in central and south Africa. Replaced by very 

 closely-allied forms in west Asia and, perhaps, Corsica. 



MUSCICAPA LATIROSTRIS 



115. Muscicapa latirostris Raffl.— THE BROWN FLY- 

 CATCHER. 



MusciCAPA LATIROSTRIS Raffles, Trans. Linn. Soc. London, xiii, 2, p. 312 

 (1821— Svimatra). 



Alseonax latirostris Raffl., Xicoll, Bull. B.O.C., xxiii, p. 93 ; Muscicapa 

 latirostris, id., Brit. B., in, p. 112. 



Distribution. — England. — One, a male, near Lydd (Kent), May 21, 

 1909 {ui supra). 



Distribution. — Abroad. — East Siberia to Lake Baikal, Corea, 

 Japan, northern parts of China and eastern Himalayas, In mnter 

 in India, Ceylon and other islands east to the Greater Sunda 

 Islands and Philippines. 



MUSCICAPA HYPOLEUCA* 



116. Muscicapa hypoleuca hypoleuca (Pall.) — THE PIED 

 FLYCATCHER. 



MoTACiLLA HYPOLEUCA Pallas, in Vroeg's Cat. Verzam. Vogelen, etc., 



Adumbratiuncula, p. 3 (1764 — Holland). 



Muscicapa luctiiosa ]MacGilli^Tay, Hist. Brit. B., in, p. 524. 



Muscicapa atricapilla Linnaeus, Yarrell, i, p. 229 ; Saiuiders, p. 159. 



Distribution. — England and Wales. — Summer-resident (late April 

 and early May to late Aug. and Sept.). Breeds regularly in con- 

 siderable numbers north and central Wales ; very small numbers 

 Devon and Salop ; locally north Lanes. ; more commonly West- 

 morland and Cumberland ; occasionally Lines. ; locally north and 

 Avest Ridings of Yorks. and in Durham and Northumberland. Has 

 also bred exceptionally in many other counties, including some 

 southern ones. Scotland. — Breeds very locally in Dumfries., and 

 has bred exceptionally in Kirkcudbright., Ayr., Midlothian, Had- 

 dington, Roxburgh, Peebles, and Inverness. Ireland. — Nine. One 

 CO. Sligo, three Tuskar Light (Wexford), four Fastnet Light (Cork), 

 one Tearaght Light (Kerry) ; one April, rest autumn. 



* As Linnaeus's name atricapilla dates from 1766, Pallas's name 

 hypoleuca has priority, and must therefore be adopted. — E.H. 



