HISTORY OF BRITISH BIRDS, 



PIED FLYCATCHER. 



GOLDFINCH. EPICUREAN WAKBLER. 



Muscicapa luctunsa, TEMMINCK. SELBY. 



atricapilla, (JMELIN. 



" ntHscipeta, BECHSTEIN. 



Itube.tra anglicana, 



JIusricapa. MutcaA. fly. CapioTo catch or take. 



Luctuosa Mourning mournful. 



THIS species is met with in abundance in the southern 

 countries of Europe France, Germany, Greece, and Italy; 

 and also occurs in Norway and Sweden in the summer. 



With us it is very local; and, like the majority of orni- 

 thologists, I have never seen it alive. 



In Yorkshire, the following localities are given as being or 

 having been the resort of this bird: The lofty oaks in 

 Stain borough woods, but only within the Park enclosure; 

 Danby, near Middleham, not far from the most beautiful 

 scenery of Jerveaulx Abbey; Wharncliffe; Ovenden; Studley 

 Royal; Copgrove; Bolton Abbey; and the woods of Harewood 

 House woods which indeed seem alive with birds, at least 

 so I am persuaded will any one say, who comes by them at 

 about three o'clock on a summer morning, as I have done 

 after a night's fishing in the Wharfe. I have often heard 

 birds sing in concert before, but this was such a 'Music 

 Meeting' as I had till then no conception of. At Dalton, 

 also, the Pied Flycatcher used to breed for several successive 

 years, but disappeared, probably destroyed by some collector; 



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