4 PIED FLYCATCHER. 
and the same remarks apply to Luddenden Dene. It has 
very rarely been seen in the East-Riding, or near York. One 
was killed at Lowestoft, in Norfolk, several others near Lynn, 
and nineteen in various places near Norwich, where a few 
oceur every season, the beginning of May, 1849. 
At Battisford, Suffolk, one male bird was shot in May, 
1849, the ‘first on record’ there. In Kent, one near Deal, 
on the 17th. of September, 1850; two, birds of the year, near 
Yoxall Lodge, Staffordshire, August 20th., 1827; one near 
Melbourne, in Derbyshire; one in Cornwall, at Scilly, the 
middle of September, 1849. In Sussex, three—one at Halnaker, 
in 1837, another at Henfield, in May, 1845, and a third in 
the same year at Mousecombe, near Brighton, in a garden; 
others near Penrith, in Cumberland; some. in Dorsetshire; and 
several in Northumberland, in May, 1822, after a severe storm 
from the south-east; also two near Benton. Many on the 
beautiful banks of the Eamont and the Lowther, in West- 
morland, the Eden, and Ullswater; also near Wearmouth, in 
Durham; one near Uxbridge, in Buckinghamshire; also near 
London: a pair built near Peckham, in 1812; rarely in Devon- 
shire; one in the Isle of Wight; also in Lancashire, Derbyshire, 
and Worcestershire. In Scotland, one, a male, was shot near 
Bruckley Castle, Aberdeenshire, in May, 1849. In Iveland 
none have been observed. It will be perceived that a large 
proportion of the above specimens occurred in the month of 
May, 1849. 
It seems to be concluded that it is only a summer visitant 
to us, and not a resident throughout the year. The males 
precede the females by a few days. 
In many of its habits the Pied Flycatcher seems to resemble 
the Redstart; and it is a curious circumstance that Rennie 
discovered a hen Redstart dead in one of their nests; and 
upon another occasion, a Redstart’s nest having been taken, 
the hen bird took forcible possession of that of a Pied Fly- 
catcher, which was near it, hatched the eggs, and brought 
up the young. Both species contend sometimes for the same 
hole to build in. A curious anecdote is related in the ‘Annals 
and Magazine of Natural History,’ for March, 1845, by John 
Blackwall, Esq., of Hendre House, Denbighshire, of a pair 
of Pied Flycatchers which built close to the portico over the 
hall door, having been debarred entrance to the hole in which 
their nest was by a swarm of bees, the latter completed the 
wrong by stinging their young ones to death. This tragedy 
