WAXWING—SPOTTED FLYCATCHER, 53 
Wise mentions that Hart told him of a specimen shot 
"about twelve years ago" (2>., about 1850) at Milton, on 
the south border of the forest. The Hart collection 
contains examples taken in the forest in the years 1866 
and 1872, and Mr. Corbin vouches for one from the same 
district in 1873. 
Dr. Welch, of Netley Hospital, informed Kelsall of 
one which appeared near Southampton " about the year 
1884." 
Mr. Meade-Waldo says that " in the severe weather of 
February, 1895, two came and fed on currants that were 
placed for thrushes under a large silver -fir on my lawn." 
Hadfield writes in the " Zoologist " of 1884 that a pair 
was procured at Freshwater as late as April, 1883, in 
summer plumage, with the wax-like appendages to the 
tail as well as the wings, and that though several others 
were observed at the same time, all had disappeared by 
the end of May. 
Dr. Cowper saw a flock of five passing over Shanklin 
in the winter of 1894-5. (" Hants Court Guide.") 
Family — Muscicapida. 
Genu s — Muscicapa, 
60. Muscicapa grisola. Spotted Flycatcher. 
Wall Bird. Beam Bird. 
A common summer visitor to all parts of the county 
and Isle of Wight. 
It arrives late, usually at the beginning of May, 
and departs in September, 
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