PIED ELYOATCITEE. 



and the same roniarlc.i apply to Luddenden Dene. It has 

 very rarely been seen in the East-Riding, or near York. One 

 was killed at Lowestoft, in Norfolk, several others near Lvnn, 

 and nineteen in various places near Norwich, where a few 

 occur every season, the beginning of May, 18-19. 



At Battisford, Suffolk, one male bird was shot in May, 

 1849, the 'first on record' there. In Kent, one near Deal, 

 on the 17th. of September, 1850; two, birds of the year, near 

 Yoxall Lodge, Staffordshire, August 20th., 1827; one near 

 Melbourne, in Derbyshire; one in Cornwall, at Scilly, the 

 middle of September, 1849. In Sussex, three one at Halnaker, 

 in 1837, another at Henfield, in May, 1845, and a third in 

 the same year at Mousecombe, near Brighton, in a garden; 

 others near Penrith, in Cumberland; some in Dorsetshire; and 

 several in Northumberland, in May, 1822, after a severe storm 

 from the south-east; also two near Benton. Many on the 

 beautiful banks of the Eamont and the Lowther, in West- 

 morland, the Eden, and Ullswater; also near Wearmouth, in 

 Durham; one near Uxbridge, in Buckinghamshire; also near 

 London: a pair built near Peckham, in 1812; rarely in Devon- 

 shire; one in the Isle of Wight; &lso in Lancashire, Derbyshire, 

 and Worcestershire. In Scotland, one, a male, was shot near 

 Bruckley Castle, Aberdeenshire, in May, 1849. In Ireland 

 none have been observed. It will be perceived that a large 

 proportion of the above specimens occurred in the month of 

 May, 1849. 



It seems to be concluded that it is only a summer visitant 

 to us, and not a resident throughout the year. The males 

 precede the females by a few days. 



In many of its habits the Pied Flycatcher seems to resemble 

 the Redstart; and it is a curious circumstance that Rennie 

 discovered a hen Redstart dead in one of their nests; and 

 upon another occasion, a Redstart's nest having been taken, 

 the hen bird took forcible possession of that of a Pied Fly- 

 catcher, which was near it, hatched the eggs, and brought 

 up the young. Both species contend sometimes for the same 

 hole to build in. A curious anecdote is related in the 'Annals 

 and Magazine of Natural History,' for March, 1845, by John 

 Black wall, Esq., of Hendre House, Denbighshire, of a pair 

 of Pied Flycatchers which built close to the portico over the 

 hall door, having been debarred entrance to the hole in which 

 their nest was by a swarm of bees, the latter completed the 

 by stinging their young ones to death. This tragedy 



