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THE PIED FLYCATCHER. 



Muscicapa atricapiUa, L. 



The reports on this species were so meagre that very little 

 can be recorded as to its movements. Its appearance on the 

 south coast seems to have been almost unobserved, and 

 the greater number o£ the records refer to its arrival at its 

 nesting-areas. On the whole, however, it seems probable 

 that the majority of our breeding-birds arrived on the 

 western half of the south coast, while the records from 

 Surrey, Essex, Southwold light, where a single bird was 

 taken on the 6tb/7th of May, and Spurn Head light, where 

 several occurred on the llth/12th, refer to numbers of 

 passage-migrants arriving somewhat later at the eastern end 

 of the south coast. The passage of these birds seems to 

 have lasted until the beginning of June. 



The first arrivals of our own nesting-birds were reported 

 from Brecknock and Cheshire on the 20th of April, and 

 others had reached Westmoreland by the 23rd and Nor- 

 thumberland by the 30th. An increase in numbers was 

 recorded in Westmoreland on the 1st of May and in 

 Radnor on the 4th, while a few were observed on passage 

 in Yorkshire on the 5th and a further increase was recorded 

 from the same county on the 12th. 



Pied Flycatchers were nesting in Radnor on the 11th of 

 May and in Yorkshire on the 19th. Nests with eggs were 

 found in Westmoreland on the 12th, in Northumberland on 

 the 18th and in Shropshire on the 22nd. 



