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Insessores. 

 Great Gray Shrike.— Ra.ve : occasional visitant in some parts of 

 England, and generally, though not always, in the winter. One killed 

 at Gweek, near Helston. 



Lesaer Gray Shrike or Rose-breasled Shrike.— ^c\\\y Isles A 

 specimen of this shrike was killed at Scilly in the month of November, 

 1851 and sent to me in the flesh, and is the smaller one in my cabinet 

 ot shrikes (See Corr. and notices in ' Zoologist ' for the year 1867. 

 feee also further particulars of this new British species in Gould's 

 iJirds of Great Britain,' Article "L. minor"). 

 Redhacked Shrike.-Tremh^ih, Madron ; and The Minney, Pen- 

 zance; nest and eggs procured from these localities: summer 

 visitant, not numerous, and at uncertain intervals; nest large for the 

 size ot the bird, and much exposed. 



Woodchat Shrike.-Very rare : an adult bird caught in a boat, 



near Sc.Ily. In the autumn of 1849 several examples of the young of 



the year were captured on the Scilly Isles, apparently driven there by 



a strong east wind which intercepted their migratorial movement 



southwards: this maybe regarded as an important fact, as off-erin.. 



good grounds for believing that they were bred in the British Isles,- 



a tact quite new to Science, the species itself being, until verv recently, 



not included in the British Fauna. ' 



Spotted Flycatcher.-GeneraWy distributed in the summer months 

 especially in East Cornwall. 



Pied Flycatcher.-Not recorded as a Cornish species till the 

 autumn of 1849, when one was captured at Alverton, Penzance; 

 o hers have since been taken at Scilly, under the same circumstances 

 as the woodchat. 



^fjreasted Flycatcher. - Carwythenack, Constantino. (See 

 Goulds Birds of Europe.') Scilly Isles. A female specimen of this 

 small flycatcher was killed at the parish of Constantino by Mr. 

 Copeland, of Carwythenack, in January, 186.3, and sent to Dr. Gray, 

 of the British Museum, for identification. The species is a native of 

 the eastern districts of Europe and western Asia, and this is the first 

 instance of Its occurrence in Great Britain. (See ' Zoologist,' 1863). 

 Notice of the capture sent by E. H. R., from information in a letter 

 rom J. Gould Esq., to him in January, 1863. The nearest approach 

 to It in tone of colouring of our small birds is in the garden fauvette, 

 Curruca hortensis; but the pure white in the upper portions of the 



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