54 BIRDS OF LANCASHIRE. 



FAMILY MUSCICAPID.E.— GENUS MUSCICAPA. 



SPOTTED FLYCATCHER. 



MuscicAPA GRisoLA, Liiiiiseus. 



Local Name — White Ilohin. 



A summer visitor ; one of the last to arrive and 

 first to leave, being seldom seen before the middle of 

 May, or after the end of August. It may be called 

 common everywhere, and in suitable localities becomes 

 plentiful. Its nest is built oftenest in clefts of trees, 

 and wedged between ivy or other climbing plants and 

 the sides of walls, houses, and rocky banks, and four or 

 five eggs are laid the end of May or beginning of June. 

 If undisturbed, the same nesting-place is used for many 

 years together. 



PIED FLYCATCHEE. 



MUSCICAPA ATRICAPILLA, LilinSBUS. 



A summer visitor, very local, and breeding in far 

 fewer places now than was the case some score of years 

 ago. It comes early, and its average date of arrival, 

 according to Blackwall, is the 27th of April, and of de- 

 parture the 4th of September. The same observer, in his 

 " Researches in Zoology," writes : '' On the 3rd of June, 

 1828, I procured a male Pied Flycatcher in the woods 

 near the Ferry-house, on the western shore of Winder- 

 mere, where I saw two males and a female. The female 

 and one of the males had paired, and were occupied in 



