THE BIRDS OF CUMBERLAND. 37 



between his arrival at the end of April and the 

 middle of June. A nestling in the Carlisle Museum 

 agrees with Mr. Hancock's description of first 

 plumage, but the under parts are white, spotted 

 with dark brown, which he does not mention as 

 present in his specimen. At the beginning of 

 August, 1881, we observed several broods of Pied 

 Flycatchers with the old birds, in the neighbourhood 

 of Geneva, the young birds being very obscure in 

 tint. In the following September, Ave found the 

 species very abundant among the walnut trees at 

 Montreux. They no longer seemed gregarious, but 

 were attired in the brown dress of autumn detailed 

 by Mr. Hancock. A short account of the colony of 

 Pied Flycatchers at Lowther will be found in the 

 Naturalist, No, 114, January, 1885, pp. 125, 126. 



Family HIRUNDINID^. 



Genus HIKUNDO. 



H. Rustica. Swallow. 



The swallow is a common summer visitant, arriv- 

 ing both singly, in pairs, and in large flocks, during 

 the month of April. The last parties to go, leave 

 in October ; but stragglers occur in November, and 

 even later, for Mr. H. P. Senhouse once saw a single 

 Swallow flying near Cockermouth on January 6th, 

 and pointed it out to others, recording it in The Field. 

 An immature bird, caught at Carlisle, on November 

 5th, 1884 (on which day another single bird appeared 

 at Ravenglass), had begun to moult in our inclement 

 climate. In May, 1884, a swallow of a lavender-grey 



