MUSCICAPID. 161 
THE RED-BREASTED FLYCATCHER. 
Muscicapa PARVA, Bechstein. 
This small Flycatcher is one of those species which, like the 
Isabelline and Desert Wheatears, have their usual habitat to the east 
of our island, but in autumn and winter often migrate in a westerly 
direction. Its occurrence in England was first noticed near Fal- 
mouth, where two examples were seen for several days, and one—a 
female—was shot on January 24th 1863. In the October following, 
two were obtained in the Scilly Islands, and a third on November 
5th 1865; on October 5th 1883, a young male was killed by Mr. 
G. Bolam in his garden at Berwick-on-Tweed ; at Scarborough one 
was obtained on October 23rd 1889; in Norfolk, one at Cley on 
September 13th 1890 and another on October 4th 18y4, and a third 
at Rollesby Broad on December i1oth 1896. For Scotland the 
only record as yet is from the Monach lighthouse, off North Uist, on 
October 22nd 1893. Ireland furnishes one from the South Arklow 
light, off Wexford ; one from the Tearaght light, and one from Tory 
Island ; all three in October of various years. 
As a wanderer the Red-breasted Flycatcher has been taken in 
Holland, Denmark, and off the south of Sweden, while a good many 
examples have been obtained in autumn on Heligoland. It breeds 
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