SHRIKES AND FLYCATCHERS. 17 



WOODCHAT, Lanius auricidatus, Miiller, 



YanelJ, i. p. 215 ; Dresser, iii. p. 407 ; Lanius rutilus, Harting, 

 p. 9; Lanius rufus, Seeholim, i. p. 610; PaUenei/s List, 

 p. 4 ; Lanius pomeranu.s, Ibis List, p, 38. 



The Woodchat is a rare visitant. Pulteney says, 

 " I have not seen the Woodchat, but am assured it 

 has now and then been shot in Dorsetshire." One 

 was killed at Bloxworth (Rev. O. P. Cambridge), and 

 another seen at Lyme Regis, June 22, 1876 (Lister, 

 The Field, July 8, 1876). Some eggs of the Wood- 

 chat in the County Museum are stated to have been 

 taken from a Dorsetshire nest. 



Fam. Mdscicapid.^. 



SPOTTED FLYCATCHER. Muscicapa grisola, L. 



Yarrell, i. p. 220 ; Harting, p. 10 ; Dresser, iii. p. 447 ; Seehohm, 

 i. p. 323 ; Ibis List, p. 40; Pultenei/s List, p, 11, 



This solitary little bird arrives here about the 

 middle of May, and soon after commences building 

 its nest, usually selecting holes in trees and walls, 

 especially in gardens and orchards, the nest being not 

 unfrequently placed on a horizontal branch of some 

 wall-fruit tree. A pair reared a brood two years 

 consecutively in the wall of the yard of the Winter- 

 bourne Whitchurch village school. 



