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Orkney, where it is said to have bred, and has visited 
Shetland, but is unrecorded from the Outer Hebrides, In 
Treland it is well distributed. 
MUSCICAPA ATRICAPILLA, Linn. 
PIED FLYCATCHER. 
According to Mr. Kermode, Mr. Crellin has had the 
nest of this species at Bishop’s Court, surrounding which 
is some of the oldest timber in Man, and in 1883 he heard 
from the late Mr. Jeffcott that he had seen the bird in his 
garden at Castletown. Mr. Crellin, however, tells me that 
the former record was based on a misunderstanding. 
On 25th April 1901 I saw a single specimen at Glen- 
may. It was for some time under my observation, among 
the trees and garden bushes in the bottom of the valley at 
the village. Being an adult male, with black and white 
plumage, and the white spot over the bill distinctly visible, 
it was quite unmistakable. 
Since 1875 eight specimens, all but one at lighthouses, 
have been obtained in Ireland, where it was previously 
unknown. Of late years it has bred (R. Service, A 
Century's Changes) in Nithsdale and Annandale, It is a 
very local, but in places abundant, summer visitor to Lake- 
land, and nests or has nested here and there in Lancashire | 
proper. Mr. Aplin did not note it in Lleyn, though in 
parts of North Wales it is abundant. It has occurred, not 
uncommonly, in Orkney, and in Shetland a specimen has 
been taken even on Foula; but there is only one record 
(very recent) for the Outer Hebrides. It is in Britain a 
bird of very local distribution, 
