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must be very local in their distribution, or less 

 frequently seen than many of their more obtru- 

 sive congeners. The Wood Wren apparently 

 comes very much later than either the Chiffchaff 

 or the Willow Wren. 



Nine observations only on the Pied Fly- 

 catcher were forwarded. These, however, con- 

 tain one or two notes of interest. The bird has 

 become much commoner of late years, or more 

 observed; and in 1872 it appears to have been 

 met with much further north than . usual. A 

 specimen was shot at N. Berwick by Mr. 

 W. Patterson, and exhibited at the Glasgow 

 Natural History Society on the 24th of Sep- 

 tember, 1872 ; and another was procured at 

 Biora, in Sutherland, on the 31st of May, by 

 Mr. T. E. Buckley. In Yorkshire it seems to 

 have been very numerous, a score being heard 

 at once in one locality, near York, on the 29th 

 of May. It was found nesting in Norfolk, at 

 Sparham, eggs being laid and the hen bird 

 sitting, on the 3rd of June. To the westward, 

 it was noted at Cirencester; and was found 



