OBSERVATIONS ON 
THE PIED FLYCATCHER. 
— 
In directing the attention of ornithologists to a 
favourite haunt of the Pied Flycatcher, I am not 
without hope that some individual who has leisure 
for the undertaking may be stimulated to investigate 
the manners and economy of this interesting species, 
with a greater degree of minuteness than has hither- 
to been done. The elucidation of several doubtful 
points in its history could not fail to reward his 
industry, and promote the interests of natural science. 
On the 3rd of June, 1828, I procured a male 
Pied Flycatcher.in the woods near the ferry-house 
on the western shore of Windermere, where I saw 
two males and a female. The female and one of the 
males had paired, and were occupied in constructing 
a nest in a hole in a decayed pollard ash on the 
margin of the lake. But the vicinity of Ullswater 
appears to be the favourite resort of this species; as, 
in walking on the Ist of June from the water-head 
to Gowbarrow Old Park, on the western side of the 
lake, a distance not exceeding three miles, I saw, 
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