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doubt the fact of the occurrence in Ireland of a 

 species previously unknown there, and has thus 

 a complete answer to any sceptic who might 

 suggest that he may have been mistaken in his 

 identification of it." 



In England the Pied Flycatcher is a regular 

 summer migrant, quite as much as any other of 

 the small birds already noticed. Mr. A. G. 

 More, in his "Notes on the Distribution of Birds 

 in Great Britain during the Nesting Season," 

 regards it as a very local species, and observes 

 that the nest has occasionally been found in 

 North Devon, Somerset, Dorset, Isle of Wight, 

 Surrey, Oxford, Norfolk, Gloucester, Shropshire, 

 Leicester, and Derby. To these counties I 

 may add Middlesex (for I have known several 

 instances of this bird nesting as near London 

 as at Hampstead, Highgate, and Harrow) and 

 Essex, where the species has been met with 

 at Leytonstone. Yarrell adds Sussex, Suffolk, 

 Yorkshire (where I also have seen it), Worces- 

 ter, Lancashire, Derbyshire, Cumberland, West- 

 moreland, Northumberland, and Durham, and 



