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 Martins, and on our return the following day it was still in 

 the same situation. Although daily upon the look-out, we 

 could not see another until the 21st, on which day several were 



seen 



Pied Flycatcher.— hW the writers upon British ornithology 

 who have stated that this species is indigenous to Bntain, ap- 

 pear to have done so more from conjecture than from any 

 conclusive evidence ; as we cannot find a single well- authenti- 

 cated fact of its having been met with in this country during 

 the winter season': indeed, all the testimony upon which any 

 reliance can be pkced is decidedly against the supposition that 

 it is indigenous, and tends strongly to prove that it is only a 

 summer bird of passage. For instance, Mr. Bolton in his 

 HarmoniaRuralis, says that it visits the west riding ot York- 

 shire, and departs with its young in September. -IheUev. 

 Mr. Dalton of Copgrove, (also in the west riding ot York- 

 shire,) states that he has frequently seen it about his house m 

 the summer, but does not recollect ever to have noticed it m 

 the winter*. Dr. Heysham, in his Catalogue of Cumberland 

 Animals, observes that the Pied Flycatcher appears about the 

 same time as the Spotted, but is not so common; and for the 

 last three years we have noticed it regularly during the spring 

 and summer in Cumberland, but as yet have never been able 

 to see, hear of, or procure a single specimen in the winter, 

 notwithstanding we have repeatedly searched for it in ail the 

 winter months during the above period ; nor can we find, trom 

 the inquiries we have made, that it has ever been seen at this 

 season of the year in those parts of Westmorland where it 

 constantly resorts to in great numbers. 



The migration of this species appears to be principally con- 

 fined to the northern counties, as it is seldom observed beyond 

 Yorkshire, and rarely seen in the south of England, although 

 it has occasionally been met with in Norfolk, Suffolk, Middle- 

 sex, Surrey, Dorsetshire; and Mr. Greaves, in his British 

 Ornithology, states, that in the summer of 1812 he found a 

 nestof d.is bird with young at Peckham, in Surrey, /".some 

 parts of Westmorland it is very plentiful, especially in the 

 beautiful and extensive woods surroundmg Lowtlier L.ast e, 

 the magnificent and princely residence ot the Larl ot l^onsdale, 

 where we have seen it in very great numbers, and where it has 

 bred unmolested and almost unknown for years. On the con- 

 trary, we have reason to think it has not resorted to the vici- 

 nity of Carlisle more than five or six years, and as far as we 



• See the Pupi.lcincnt to Montngu's Ornithological Dictionary, 



have 



