70 BIRDS OF CHESHIRE. 
any addition. Mr. Wolley-Dod writes:—‘I have now 
in one of my glass-roofed porches a Swallow’s nest 
attached to the wall, in which a brood of Swallows were 
reared last year; it is now occupied by a brood of 
Spotted Flycatchers. The situation shelters the nest 
from the weather, and I do not think any alteration or 
addition was made to the nest by the Flycatchers.’} 
In 1899, Mr. F.S. Graves found a Spotted Flycatcher’s 
nest at Alderley Edge which had been built inside the 
nest of a Song Thrush, there being two eggs of the 
latter bird beneath the nesting material added by the 
Flycatchers. 
The Spotted Flycatcher, like the Robin, Wren, and 
Swallow, is considered sacred in some of the country 
districts, and its nest and eggs are not molested by the 
schoolboy.? 
PIED FLYCATCHER. 
MUSCICAPA ATRICAPILLA, Linnzeus. 
The Pied Flycatcher has been occasionally observed 
in Cheshire, but only as a passing migrant. Brockholes 
saw one in a wood at Burton on April 30th, 1867,° and 
another was noted at Thornleigh, near Chester, on May 
5th, 1884.4 On the same day in the following year 
Coward watched a male in a covert at Birkin Heath, 
Ashley. 
Dr. Dobie mentions a specimen that was obtained at 
Hoole, near Chester,® and we have examined another 
that was shot in the garden of Northenden Rectory. 
1 Field, vol. xc. p. 307. 
2 R. Holland, Glossary of Words used in the County of Chester, 
1884-86, p. 249. 3 Brockholes, op, cit. p. 5. 
4 Field, vol. lxili. p. 651. 5 Dobie, op. cié. p. 295. 
