CLARKE: THE BIRDS OF YORKSHIRE. 6l 



LANIUS AUEICULATUS P.L.S.Muller. 

 Woodchat Shrike. 



A very rare summer visitant. 



This species has occurred in Yorkshire — so far as I have 

 been able to ascertain — on two occasions only^ and I greatly 

 regret my inability to give full particulars of them ; for details 

 respecting so rare a visitant to Britain, and so fine a species, 

 would be most acceptable to all interested in Yorkshire 

 ornithology. Mr. Yarrell in the first edition of his British Birds 

 (vol. L, p. i6i), published in 1843, states that "a few years ago 

 Mr. Leadbeater received a specimen which had been killed in 

 Yorkshire." Professor Newton in his edition of that work (187 1) 

 mentions its having been met with in Yorkshire, no doubt refer- 

 ring to the same specimen. Mr. A. Roberts, of Scarborough, 

 informs me that in the year i860 or 1861, Mr. Alwin S. Bell 

 obtained two young birds in the Castle Holmes, Scarborough; 

 but he (Mr. Bell) only succeeded in preserving one of them, 

 owing to their being so very fat. 



PASSERES. MUSCICAPIDyE. 



MUSCICAPA GRISOLA L. 

 Spotted Flycatcher. 



A common summer visitant. 



A common and generally distributed species, arriving during 

 the first fortnight of May, leaving again in September. It is well 

 known for its habit of returning to favourite breeding haunts, and 



