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THE SPOTTED FLYCATCHER. 



Muscicapa grisola, L. 



The records o£ this species do not furnish any very definite 

 evidence as to its points o£ entry, but it apparently arrived 

 along the whole of the south coast. The first recorded 

 arrival was in Dorsetshire on the 14th of April. Up to the 

 end of the first week in May birds wei^ scattered about 

 the country in small numbers, but after that they began to 

 increase rapidly, and by the third week were very generally 

 distributed and had commenced nesting. There were only 

 two reports from the lights, viz. : — Seven seen and one killed 

 at the Chicken Rock light (Isle of Man) on the 22nd/23rd 

 of May, and the other from St. Catherine's light (Hants), 

 where one was killed on the 26th/27th. 



Spotted Flycatchers were nesting in Montgomery on the 

 14th of May, in Hampshire on the 15thj in Lancashire on the 

 16th, and in Devonshire and Surrey on the 20th. Nests with 

 eggs were found in Radnor on the 23rd, in Essex on the 

 24th, in Northumberland on the 25th, and in Yorkshire on 

 the 30th. 



Cheonological Summaky of the Records. 



pril 14th. 



Dorset. 



20th. 



Westmoreland. 



24th. 



Kent, Monmouth, Derby, Cumberland 



25th. 



Staffordshire. 



28th. 



Cheshire. 



„ 29th. 



Suffolk, Lancashire. 



