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midsummer, and I have never been able to detect 

 it on the clays, or among the great woods of the 

 weald. 



Family MUSCICAPID^. 



SPOTTED FLYCATCHER, Muscicapa grisola. Not 

 so common as in many other counties. Seldom 

 arrives until the latter end of May, but makes the 

 most of its time, generally bringing up two fami- 

 lies before it leaves us in the autumn. This 

 occurred during three successive years in an apri- 

 cot tree in my garden, to which a pair of these 

 birds returned regularly every summer, until their 

 retreat was at last discovered by a prowling cat ; 

 and the mother, her unfledged little ones, and the 

 nest itself, were destroyed " at one fell swoop." 



PIED FLYCATCHER, Muscicapa atricapilla. A 

 very rare visitor from the north. A specimen was 

 shot at Halnaker, in 1837, which is now in the 

 Chichester Museum, another near Henfield, in 

 May, 1845, which is in Mr. W. Borrer's collec- 

 tion ; and a third example in the same year at 

 Mousecombe, near Brighton, where it had been 

 observed in a garden for some days before it was 

 killed. 



