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Oct. 5th. Suffolk coast, many ; Grainthorpe (Lincoln), one or 



two. 



„ 6th. N.E. Lincolnshire coast, increase, abundant. 



„ 7th. Suftbllf coast, all passed on. 



„ 8th. Yorkshire (south coast), small party. 



„ 9th. Yorkshire (south coast), about a dozen. 



„ 10th. Suffolk coast, two or three. 



„ 29th, Dorset (coast), four or five. 



Nov. 5th. Dorset coast, ten or twelve. 



„ lOth/llth. Skerries Lt, (Anglesey), three, 



THE SPOTTED FLYCATCHER {Muscicapa grisola). 



Spotted Flycatchers were observed on passage in Devonshire early in 

 August, an increase in numbers locally was noted on the 13th followed 

 by a marked decrease on the 19tli. They were congregating in Glou- 

 cestershire on the 13th, the greater portion leaving on the following 

 day ; many were observed on passage in the same county on the 21st 

 and a few on the 31st. In E, Fife there was a large passage of 

 migi-ants on the 24th, and in Cornwall a few were passing during the 

 last fortnight of the month. There were only two light-records in 

 August, viz. :— 20th/21st Bardsey Light (Carnarvon), six ; South Bishop 

 Light (Pembroke), one. 



In September numbers were passing in E. Fife on the 8th and 11th, 

 and stragglers in Northumberland between the 8th and 18th. They 

 were gathering in small parties with Willow- Warblers in Cumberland 

 on the 9th, the bulk of them leaving two days later. A small lot 

 arrived in Gloucestershire on the 3rd and passed on during the following- 

 day, in Berkshire passing birds were reported on the 10th, 24th and 25th, 

 while stragglers were noted on passage in Sussex during the last week 

 of the month. A single bird was killed at St. Catherine's Light (Hamp- 

 shire) on the night of 22nd/23rd. In October single passing birds were 

 recorded in Sussex on the 1st, and in Kent on the 2nd and three in the 

 latter county on the 31st. 



Spotted Flycatchers were last seen in Staffoi-dshire on the 26th 

 of August, in Wiltshire and Devonshire on the 13th of September, in 

 Cumberland on the 15th, in Gloucester on the 17th, in Lincolnshire on 

 the 21st, in W^igtown, Suffolk and Cornwall on the 24th, in Worcester on 

 the 26th and in Hampshire on the 28th, 



THE PIED FLYCATCHER {Muscicaim atricapiUa). 



Aug. 6th. Hopefield (Gladsmuir), one. 



,, 13th. Norfolk coast, about a dozen passing. 

 „ 14th. Suffolk coast, one arrived. 



