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THE SPOTTED FLYCATCHER. 

 Muscicapa grisola, L, 



The Spotted Flycatcher arrived along the whole of the south 

 coast, but chiefly on the western half. 



Several early stragglers were reported during the last ten 

 days of April, chiefly from western and northern counties. 

 On the 30th the first immigration, of small numbers, arrived 

 on the coast from Hampshire westwards, and the birds seem 

 to have passed up the western side of the kingdom, reaching 

 the Isle of Man and the south of Scotland on the 4th of 

 May and Yorkshire on the 5th, while others were observed 

 at Bardsey light, Carnarvonshire, on the same night. Very 

 few appear to have passed inland to the east of Hampshire. 



Single birds were taken at the Caskets light on the nights 

 of the 6th and 9th of May, and at Sark light on that of the 

 7th, while small numbers again occurred at the Caskets light 

 on the night of the 10th. There was no evidence in the 

 records to show that any fresh lot of migrants arrived on our 

 shores before the 11th, when a considerable migration com- 

 menced and lasted until the 15th, large numbers being 

 recorded from the Caskets light on the night of the 14th. 

 The records seemed to indicate that a large proportion of our 

 breeding-birds were included in this movement, but they were 

 not sufficiently detailed to enable the progress of the birds 

 through the country to be traced. Large numbers again 

 occurred at the Caskets light on the night of the 19th, and 

 there were indications of an immigration on our shores on 

 the following day, while a few birds were observed on pas- 

 sage at a light-vessel off the Lancashire coast on the night 

 of the 23rd. 



