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THE SPOTTED FLYCATCHER. 



Muscicapa grisola L. 



Although a few stragglers were recorded during the 

 first week in May, it was not until the 6tli and 7th of that 

 month that the Spotted Flycatcher arrived in numbers. 

 (Jn those dates, however, it was recorded from the seaboard 

 counties between Hants and Suffolk, and durino; the 

 next few days it had spread in small numbers in a 

 north-westerly direction, but did not reach any counties to 

 the south-west of a line drawn from Hants to Merioneth. 



Between the 13th and 16th immigrations arrived on the 

 western half of the south coast and spread over the south- 

 western counties, the numbers over the rest of the country 

 remaining unaltered. 



Immigrations arrived on the same portion of the coast 

 between the 20th and 23rd of May, the eastern flank arriving 

 in Kent and Sussex on the 24th. After that date the species 

 appears to have settled down in its breeding-quarters, although 

 a further small influx was noted in the Isle of Wight on 

 the 31st. 



A half-built nest was found in Radnorshire on the 22nd. 

 On the 24th the species was observed building in Suifolk, 

 and on the same day a nest with one egg was found in 

 Cheshire. 



Chronological Summary of the Records. 



April 23. Bucks. 



Ma}^ 2. Staffordshire. 



