in Great Britain during the Nesting-season. IZ 
EnNeEoctonus cotturio (Bote). Red-backed Shrike. 
Provinces I.—XIJ. XIV. 
Subprovinces 1, 2-15, 17, 18, 20, 21-25, 28. 
Lat. 50°-55° or 56°. “ English” type. Not in Ireland. 
Breeds only occasionally in Cornwall, and is apparently not 
found in Lincolnshire. Mr. Eyton describes the Red-backed 
Shrike as very common in Wales. Thence northwards it becomes 
rare, nesting only occasionally in Westmoreland, Cumberland, 
and Durham, and is not included in the Northumberland list. 
A very few imstances are known of it breeding in Scotland. 
The Rev. J. Duns has once seen a pair during the summer in 
Berwickshire. Mr. Robert Gray tells me that a pair frequented 
a hedge-row near Dunbar during the breeding-season of 1852 ; 
and Mr. J. R. Pencaitland has ascertained that the nest has been 
once found in Haddingtonshire. 
Obs.—The Woodchat (#. rufus) is thought to have once or 
twice nested at Freshwater, in the Isle of Wight, where Mr. H. 
Rogers has twice taken a nest which Mr. F. Bond refers to this 
species; and Mr. Rogers believes that he saw the parent bird 
about the same locality. A young bird of the year was shot, in 
1856, in the vicinity of the spot where the nest had been taken. 
The Ash-coloured Shrike (Lanius excubitor) is also supposed to 
have bred in this country, from the circumstance of old birds 
having been noticed during the summer months. In his ‘ British 
Birds,’ Lewin writes, “I have seen it in Wiltshire, and have no 
doubt of its breeding there.” Yarrell mentions its occurrence 
during summer in Essex and Northumberland. The Rev. J. 
Duns has seen the bird in summer, in Linlithgow ; and the Rev. 
T. M. Richards informs me that he once found the nest and 
young of the larger Butcher-bird in Somerset, and killed the old 
birds before he was aware of their rarity. I learn from my 
friend, the Rev. W. H. Hawker, that the nest recorded by him 
in the ‘ Ibis’ for 1859 (p. 830) has proved to be that of the 
Red-backed, not the Ash-coloured, Shrike. 
Muscicapa Grisoua (L.). Spotted Flycatcher. 
Provinces I.-X VII. 
