PIED FLYCATCHEPv — SWALLOW. 
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PIED FLYCATCHER. Muscicajpa atricapilla, Linnaeus. 
A rare summer migrant, but there is no record of its breeding. — Harley 
wrote: — “A young male was shot by Chaplin on the banks of Groby Pool in 
the autumn of 1840,” and, under date 28th April, 1859 : — “ Examined to-day^ 
at Collins, the birdstuffer’s, a fine male example shot at Markfield.” Collins 
also informed him that he once had a Pied Flycatcher, said to have been captured 
in Bradgate Park. ^Ir. ^lacaulay’s note-book records a specimen seen in his 
garden at Kibworth, ^lay, 1859, “apparently weak and exhausted after long flight.” 
The date (1870) at p. 256, ‘Mid. Xat.’, 1881, is therefore, apparently, an error. 
iSIr. Macaulay also tells me of one seen by him, which was shot at Ilston, by 
!Mr. Xewcomb, about 1875. Turner gave me a note, which I published in the 
‘ Zool.,’ 1885, p. 461, that, about 1880, a male bird of this species was taken 
in a barn at Wanlip. Since then the Rev. W. H. Palmer, ]M.A., has very 
kindly made enquiries for me, and has ascertained that a Pied Flycatcher teas 
caught, as stated, but the man who caught it having left the village, no further 
information could be gained. !Mr. Davenport informs me that a pair of these 
birds were seen by iMr. Kestin in his father's garden at Twyford on 5th May, 1883, 
and that they remained about the place, probably with the intention of nesting. 
The late ]Mr. Widdowson once had one which had been killed at ^Melton. I 
received an immature male, shot at Bardon Hill by Mr. "NVard, on 12th May, 
1883; and Mr. A. K. Perkins shot a fine male at Laughton on 27th April, 1888, 
which he most generously presented to the ^Museum. 
In Rutla>'D. — Xo authentic record, for I am quite sure Mr. Horn will 
pardon my passing over his young friend’s statement as to its nesting. 
Section OSCIXES-LATIROSTRES. 
Family HI E U NDIN I D A:. 
SWALLOW. Hirundo rustica, Linmeus. 
“ Chimney-Swallow.” 
A summer migrant, commonly distributed, and breeding. — Less than a 
hundred years ago it was imagined that Swallows hybernated near water ! for 
Throsby, writing in 1793 (‘The History and Antiquities of the Ancient Town of 
Leicester,’ pp. 398-9) says, with a fine contempt : — “ Some Xaturalists have taken 
much pains to con\dnce us that this bird emigrates for the purpose of living 
in warmer climates during the winter. I have sometimes thought that they 
might as well tell us that flies, which are also invisible during the winter. 
