FLYCATCHERS. 99 



Fam. MUSCICAPID^E. 



RED-BREASTED FLYCATCHER. Muscicapa parva, 

 Bechstein. 



Hob. North-western Asia ; India ; Eastern Europe. 

 One, Constantine, near Falmouth, 24th Jan. 1863 : Rodd, 



Zoologist, 1863, p. 8444. 

 One, Scilly, October 1863 : Rodd, op. cit. p. 11 ; G. R. Gray, 



Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (3rd series), xi. p. 229. 

 One, Scilly, 5th Nov. 1865 : Rodd, List Brit. Birds, 2nd ed. p. 1 1 . 



RED-EYED FLYCATCHER. Vireosylvia olivacea(Vieillot). 



Hab. United States of North America, as far south as Bogota. 

 Two taken by a bird-catcher, Chellaston, near Derby, May 1859 : 



Sir Oswald Mosley, Nat. Hist. Tutbury (1863), p. 385, pi. 6 ; 



Zoologist, 1864, p. 8965. The male, which was preserved, is 



in the collection of Mr. Edwin Brown, of Burton-on-Trent. 



Fam. PETROCINCLID^l. 



ROCK THRUSH. Petrocincla saxatilis (Gmelin). 

 Hab. Central Europe. 



One, Thorfield, near Royston, 19th May, 1843 : Yarrell, Hist. 

 Birds, i. p. 245. 



One, Robin Hood's Bay, Yorkshire, 1856 : Morris, Naturalist, 

 1856, p. 21. 



One or more reported to have been seen and shot at Fresh- 

 water, Isle of Wight (Zoologist, 1867, pp. 823, 913) but 

 erroneously so, as I am informed by Mr. Bond, who in- 

 vestigated the circumstances*. 



* The Blue Thrush, Petrocossyphus cyaneus, is said to have been 

 killed in the co. Heath in November 1866 (Zoologist, 1870, p. 2019); 

 but Messrs. Sharpe and Dresser, who have inquired into the circum- 

 stance (Birds of Europe), have rejected its claims to be included in 

 the list of British Birds. 



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