HRISTORY OF BRITISH. BIRDS, 
PIED FLYCATCHER. 
COLDFINCH. EPICUREAN WARBLER. 
Muscicapa luctuosa, TEMMINCK. SELBY. 
“s atricapilla, GMELIN. 
ms muscipeta, BECHSTEIN, 
Rubetra anglicana, BRISSON. 
Muscicapa. Musca—A fly. Capio—To catch or take. 
Luctuosa---Mourning—mournful. 
THrIs species is met with in abundance in the southern 
countries of Hurope—France, Germany, Greece, and Italy; 
and also occurs in Norway and Sweden in the summer. 
With us it is very local; and, lke the majority of orni- 
thologists, I have never seen it alive. 
In Yorkshire, the following localities are given as being or 
having been the resort of this bird:—The lofty oaks in 
Stainborough woods, but only within the Park enclosure; 
Danby, near Middleham, not far from the most beautiful 
scenery of Jerveaulx Abbey; Wharncliffe; Ovenden; Studley 
Royal; Copgrove; Bolton Abbey; and the woods of Harewood 
House—woods which indeed seem alive with birds, at least 
so I am persuaded will any one say, who comes by them at 
about three o’clock on a summer morning, as I have done 
after a night’s fishing in the Wharfe. I have often heard 
birds sing in concert before, but this was such a ‘Music 
Meeting’ as I had till then no conception of. At Dalton, 
also, the Pied Flycatcher used to breed for several successive 
years, but disappeared, probably destroyed by some collector; 
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