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on the berries of the mountain-ash. It was mounted and 
was placed in Mr, Wallace’s museum at Distington. This 
note was communicated by the late Mr. J. M. Jeffcott at a 
meeting of the Isle of Man Natural History Society in 1883. 
Mr. W, J. C. Joughin tells me that he saw about eight 
in 1891 in the garden of Ballaspet (Patrick), These were 
very tame, allowing of approach within a few feet. 
In Y. LZ. M., ii. 70, Mr. J. C. Crellin reports the re- 
appearance of the species. In February 1893 two Wax- 
wings were observed, according to a letter which appeared 
in the Isle of Man Times, feeding on hawthorn berries near 
Braddan Bridge. In January of the same year a pair was 
seen in the neighbourhood of Ramsey, and one of these, 
taken in a garden at that town, after being kept alive for 
some weeks, came into the possession of Mr. Kermode, and 
is now in the Ramsey Museum. Mr, Crellin states that 
this bird while in captivity would not eat its favourite 
haws, but preferred bread or soft food. 
The Waxwing occurs less frequently in Ireland than in 
Great Britain, being decidedly an eastern bird, but there are 
nearly fifty records (Ussher), many of them in Antrim and 
Down (five of these latter in January and February 1893). 
It has once been reported from Wigtownshire. Its erratic 
migrations have frequently, at irregular intervals, extended 
into Lakeland and Lancashire. It occurs in both Orkney 
and Shetland; it has been once recorded from the Outer 
Hebrides. 
MUSCICAPA GRISOLA, Linn. SPOTTED 
FLYCATCHER. 
Mr. F, 8. Graves remembers having seen this species 
about 1874 near Douglas, where a nest in the open gutter of 
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