FIED FLYCATCHER. 
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INCESSORES. 
DENTIROSTRES. 
MUSCICAPIDJE. 
PIED FLYCATCHER. 
Muscicapa atricapilla. 
PLATE XXI. FIG. II. 
Although a few stragglers have been met with in vari¬ 
ous parts of England (Bewick mentions a nest which was 
found in Axwell Park, near Newcastle-upon-Tyne; and 
Bolton found some in the West Riding of Yorkshire), 
Westmoreland and Cumberland are the favourite resorts of 
this species, and especially that portion of those counties 
which forms the choicest of England’s scenery, the lake 
district. Here, also, it is quite local, and though I have 
seen it in plenty in the woods which form the beautiful 
banks of the rivers Eamont and Lowther, and upon the 
Eden at Eden-hall, yet during a walk through the lake 
district it never appeared again, except upon the borders 
of Ullswater. Mr. Heppenstall, a correspondent of the 
“ Zoologist,” states “ that it is rather plentiful in Wharn- 
cliffe Wood, not far from Sheffield, that it is exceedingly 
local, only being found in a space of fifty or sixty acres of 
venerable oak-trees near some fish-ponds.” 
Mr. Blackwall has recorded a very interesting instance 
in which a pair of Pied Flycatchers, imitating the more 
familiar habits of the other species, took up their resi¬ 
dence, and “ for a long series of years incubated their eggs, 
and nurtured their young in security, in a small aperture 
close by the portico to the principal entrance of” his 
father’s residence in Denbighshire, “ undisturbed appa- 
