MUSCICAPIDA. T59 
THE PIED FLYCATCHER. 
MuscIcAPA ATRICAPILLA, Linnaeus. 
_ Although far less numerous than the preceding species, the Pied 
Flycatcher is a regular visitor to Great Britain, arriving in the latter 
part of April and returning southward in autumn. Large numbers 
have sometimes been observed during the first week in May on the 
Pentland Skerries, the Isle of May, and at Flamborough and Spurn in 
Yorkshire ; while a return migration has been noticed in August and 
September. During the breeding-season this is a very local species, 
and although nests are said to have been found occasionally in some 
of the southern counties, its favourite haunts are rather in the west 
and north. In portions of Wales, such as Brecon, Carmarthen, 
Merioneth and Denbigh, as well as in the English counties on the 
Welsh border, it breeds annually ; also in Lancashire, some parts of 
Yorkshire, Durham and Northumberland ; but its head-quarters are 
in Westmoreland and Cumberland, where it appears to be on the 
increase. In Scotland this species is much rarer, but it has bred as 
far north as Inverness-shire, and has often occurred in the Orkneys 
