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on the 3rd of April. On the 6th it was seen 

 at Keswick, in Norfolk, and on the 8th and 

 three following days in four different localities 

 in Yorkshire ; the wind S. W., and the tempe- 

 rature about 51°. After the middle of the 

 month this bird became more numerous, and 

 was very generally observed. In Derbyshire, 

 at Melbourne, it was not seen until April 24, 

 where it seems to have arrived with a S.E. 

 wind ; and going still further north, we find it in 

 Stirlingshire and Sutherlandshire on the 27th 

 and 28th. In Ireland it is very rare, and no note 

 was forwarded of its occurrence there in 1872. 



The Spotted Flycatcher is always a late 

 comer, seldom appearing before the first or 

 second week in May. Last year, however, it 

 arrived somewhat earlier than usual, and was 

 noticed in Norfolk, at North Runcton, on 

 April 23, and at Barnsley on the 27th; the wind 

 W., and the temperature about 54°, with a haze 

 and light rain. Mr. A. D. Campbell states that 

 Flycatchers were unusually numerous at Gar- 

 voch, in Perthshire, about the 21st of Ma v. and 



