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6th; swallow, October 17th; martin, October 25th. I am, 

 Sir, yours, &c. — W. T. Brec. Allcsleij Rectory, Nov. 22. 

 IBftfk sd isvsn H63 ilniriJ I zb t g9n9Da irfi brm v-ttnijoo srfo lot 

 loni^LOi^dwfc^j^g^ two swallows, 



on the 22d instant, between 8 and 9 o'clock in the morning, 

 flying about, over the gardens of the houses of the south side 

 of the principal street of this town. The morning was very 

 mild and bright, the temperature, at the time, 42° of Fahr. 

 After watching them for more than half an hauity I returned 

 to the house, but did not see them again in the course of the 

 day. A single swallow had been noticed by my friend 

 S. L. Kent, Esq. on the preceding day, at the end of the 

 town. The general flight of the swallows from this place 

 occurred on the 7th of October. — James G. Tatem. Wycombe, 

 Nov. 24., 1832. .££8T 



April 18.; in 1831, on Aj#ayp« ;**&"§ 8«# An^AfriYiQ^^- 

 ~BR Wn. nr I^ I B^in9 flL ^%v^ l e[ VS^i i ?wro D9i9vod Ji e« t &noi;r 

 Dates of the Appearance of some Spring Birds, in 1832, in 

 the Neighbourhood of Clitheroe, Lancashire.— Young rooks 

 heard 5th April; hoii*fe tfl^titi^sWtt *He 14th ; sandpiper, 

 14th ; willow wren, spring wagtail, and redstart, 17th ; wheat- 

 ear, 19th; sand martin and swallow, 22d ; cuckoo heard, 

 26th; wood wren, blackcap, and whinchat, 28th; mocking 

 bird and whitethroat, 4th May ; swift, 7th ; fly-catcher, 1 1th ; 

 and fieldfares were seen until the 2d of May, which is later 

 than I ever observed them before. [In the parish of Allesley, 

 near Coventry, fieldfares were observed so late as the 14th of 

 May: see Vol. V. p. 594. — J. D.~\ No doubt many of these birds 

 were in the neighbourhood earlier than the dates I have at- 

 tached to them, but they are the periods at which I first saw 

 or heard them. The study of natural history is, perhaps, as 

 little followed in this neighbourhood as in any part of the 

 kingdom, notwithstanding the facilities which are offered. Our 

 flora is beautiful, varied, and possesses many rare plants, yet 

 I only know of two herbariums : the birds are abundant, yet 

 there is but one collector of them ; and as for insects, al- 

 though I frequently take what I consider to be rare species, 

 yet I cannot find an entomologist in the whole district, or I 

 would send them to him. In conclusion [this communica- 

 tion is but one of several sent by T. G. at the same time], 

 allow me to add, that the leisure hours I have, from a some- 

 what busy life, which has been spent in those pursuits, have 

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