THE BIRDS OF DORSET. 



PIED FLYCATCHER. Muscicapa atneapilla, L. 



Yarrell, i. p. 229 ; Harting, p. 10 ; Dresser, iii. p. 453 ; Seehohm, 

 i. p. 328; Ibis List, p. 41. 



The Pied Flycatcher is a rare visitant to Dorset- 

 shire. It breeds in the Lake District, in the York- 

 shire Dales, and in Wales, as well as in the south 

 of Scotland. Three passed through the hands of 

 Mr. Rolls, of Weymouth, which had been shot at 

 Bloxworth, and one was shot at Glanvilles Wootton. 

 A manuscript note by the late Mr. J. C. Dale, in his 

 copy of " Pulteney's Catalogue," states that Selby 

 possessed a Dorsetshire specimen. A pair was shot 

 in the grounds of Corfe Castle Rectory in May 1879. 



Fam. Opjolid^. 

 GOLDEN ORIOLE. Oriolus galhuJa, L. 



Yarrell, i. p. 233 ; Havting, p. 10 \ Dresser, iii. p. 365 ; Seehohm, 

 i. p. 589 ; Ibis List, p. 36. 



The Golden Oriole is an accidental summer visitant, 

 and has been met with in several parts of the county. 

 A male bird was seen at Bloxworth for more than 

 a week in 1854 (Rev. 0. P. Cambridge, Zoologist, 

 p. 4366) ; another was shot at Affpuddle (Rev. C. R. 

 W. Waldy) ; one was seen on the hills behind Kim- 

 meridge in 1867, and one shot at Bradford Peverell, 

 September 1872. A pair visited Chandler's Copse, 

 Buckland Newton, April 1874 (C. S. Glyn) ; one was 



