THE BIRDS OF DEVONSHIRE. 37 



Examples have been obtained at Kingskerswell, 

 Asliburton, Plymouth, Blackawton, Alphington, 

 Kingsbridge, and other districts. Mr. H. NichoUs 

 possesses two local specimens. 



Family Musoicapid^. 

 SPOTTED FLYCATCHER.— Jf^<sc/fr/7;rt iirisola, Liun. 



A NUMEROUS summer visitant, arriving in our 

 gardens in May and nesting annually in the same 

 situations, wherever in fact suitable shelter happens 

 to be forthcoming. 



PIED FLYCATCHER.— Mws«cajt?« atrkapilla, Linu. 



A RAKE summer visitant, observed by Mr. Gatcombe 

 on migration near Plymouth, and occasionally 

 recognised as a straggler in other parts of Devon. 

 At llsham,near Torquay, a Pied Flycatcher was 

 shot in April, 1866. Mr. Mitchell has only met 

 with the species twice ; once, some few years ago 

 he observed a pair in a small wood, where he 

 thought that they were nesting, and again in the 

 spring of 1889, when he observed a single bird near 

 Tavistock. At Dulverton, on the eastern border of 

 Devon, the Rev. Prebendary Bassett identified a 

 Pied Flycatcher in the spring of 1 888. 



Famili/ Hirundinid^. 



SWALLOW. — Hirundo rustica, Linn. 



A SUMMER visitant, arriving in great numbers on the 



South coast of Devon from a S.W. direction, and 



nesting generally, though many only pass through on 



