30 THE BIRDS OF CUMBERLAND. 



occurred in Cumberland, as in Norfolk and other 

 counties, in the winter 1866-7, the majority of the 

 birds being obtained on the eastern borders of 

 Cumberland, in the vicinity of one of our probable 

 tracks of migration. We have seven skins obtained 

 near Alston on this occasion by B. Greenwell, who 

 shot many more ; at Garrigill, some beautiful ex- 

 amples were shot by Mr. Joseph Walton. In other 

 years, these wanderers appear to visit us chiefly by 

 a more northern track, occurring repeatedly in the 

 same localities near Carlisle in different years. Mr. 

 G. Parkin has kindly favoured us with photographs 

 of a Waxwing, shot at Stapleton, near Brampton, 

 December 4th, 1875, in which the silky plumage of 

 this bird is well shewn. 



Family MUSCICAPID^. 



Genus MUSCICAPA. 



M. Grisola. Spotted Flycatcher. 



The Spotted Flycatcher is a common summer 

 visitant, arriving early in May, and constantly 

 repairing to the same breeding haunt. 



Mr. B. Johnson reminds us that a Spotted Fly- 

 catcher has nested in the summers of 1883, 1884, 

 and 1885, upon one identical branch of a small tree 

 on Kinofmoor : thouo^h the situation is close to a 

 road, and the locality is constantly ransacked by 

 egg-collectors, the Flycatcher has in each season 

 reared her brood in safety. The Spotted Flycatcher 

 is partial to ivied garden walls. We lately saw a 



