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THE PIED FLYCATCHER. 



Muscicapa atricapilla L. 



As there were no lighthouse-records ol this species and the 

 observations inland were scanty, it was difficult to give 

 any connected summary of its migratory movements. It was 

 first noticed on the 13th o£ April, when two birds were 

 seen on passage in Devon, It was observed in Brecon on 

 the 15th, and was not again recorded till the 20th, when a 

 male was seen passing Hampstead, Middlesex, the only notices 

 o£ its presence in these counties. Although Pied Flycatchers 

 were seen as far north as Yorkshire on the 21st of April and 

 Denbigh on the 23rd, immigrants were not recorded in Kent 

 till the 4:th of May and in Sussex till the 8th, while there 

 were no observations from Hampshire, the Isle of Wight 

 or Dorset. 



From Wales and the northern counties the records were 

 naturally more abundant, and there were a good many 

 notices of the occurrence of small numbers of this species 

 from early in May onwards. It had settled down and 

 paired in Cumberland on the 2nd, in Derby on the 12th, in 

 Shropshire on the 16th and in Merioneth on the 19th of 

 that month. 



Nests with eggs were found in Merioneth and Derbyshire 

 on the 23rd, and in Radnor on the 30th of May. 



ClSKONOLOGICAL SrMMARY OF THE ReCOEDS. 



April 13. Devon. 



„ 15. Brecon. 



20. Middlesex. 



„ 21. Yorkshire. 



,, 22. Staffi)rd, Westmoreland. 



