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THE SPOTTED FLYOATOHER. 



Museicapa grisola^ L. 



This species was remarkable on account of the lateness of its 

 arrival in 1910, and it seems doubtful i£ the majority o£ the 

 birds had reached their nesting-quarters before our spring 

 observations had been brought to an end. Up to the end 

 of the first week of May only a few solitary and widely 

 scattered individuals had been reported to the south of latitude 

 53° N., but between the 9th and 22nd the records received 

 from all parts of the country showed that the Spotted Fly- 

 catcher was becoming rather more generally distributed. The 

 movements were difficult to trace, but there appear to have 

 been small immigrations, chiefly in the west, about the 

 9th, 16th, 19th and 25th of May, that on the 19th being 

 the largest and having the most marked effect on the 

 bird^s distribution. Our systematic records ceased at the 

 end of May, but there was evidentlj'- a large immigration, 

 possibly containing the bulk of our breeding-birds, which 

 was noted in Devonshire, Kent, Wales and Staffordshire 

 between the 28th of May and the 5th of June. With the 

 exception of a nest ready for eggs in Sussex on the 29th of 

 May no records of its nesting were received. 



Chronological Summary of the Records. 



April 



16tli. 



Shropshire, 



17th. 



Sussex. 



25th. 



Suffolk. 



27th. 



Cheshire. 



29th. 



Essex. 



