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TURTLE DOVE. Always to be seen in summer. Breed in our hedges; nest con- 



sists of a few twigs, barely sufficient to confine the egg. 

 Occasionally seen flying over. 



( i:u\\ . Common, Breed in the trees adjoining the house. 

 I , . K Abundant. Build at the Rectory. 

 JACKDAW. Always build in the elm tree opposite the Mill. 

 MAGPIE. (icm rally hived in the coppice adjoining Cerney road. 

 JAY. 1'ivi-d in the coppice beyond the Windmill. 

 STARLING. Very numerous. 

 Hi MING. Common. 

 Ki 1. 1 HUNTING. Ditto. 

 Yi:u.ow BUNTING. Very abundant. 

 CIRE BUNTING. Very rare, never saw but one specimen. 

 CHAFFINCH. Very numerous. 



BULLFINCH. Common. Often build in the thickest part of the Scotch wild rose. 

 GOLDFINCH. Common. 



GREENFINCH. Very numerous in winter ; a few breed here. 

 CROSSBEAK. Sometimes seen in winter. 



BRAMBLINO. Not uncommon in severe winters ; never breed here. 

 BROWN LINNET. Common. Breed in the groves, and we have immense flocks 



in winter. 



SISKIN. Only once seen. 

 MOUNTAIN LINNET. I have shot some of these in the flocks of the common 



Linnet in winter. 



HOUSE SPARROW. Very numerous. 

 TREE SPARROW. Not uncommon in the winter, but they are principally male 



birds. I generally shoot some cocks, but very rarely a hen. 

 NUTHATCH. Not often seen. I frequently see one running up the trunk of a 



lime tree close to my dining-room window. 



CREEPER. I may apply exactly the same remarks as to the Nuthatch. 

 WRYNECK. Constant summer visitant, arriving about the time of the Cuckoo, 



thence named by the country people the Cuckoo's Mate. 

 GREEN WOODPECKER. Common. 

 CUCKOO. Numerous ; the trees above my house a favourite spot with them ; 



during the breeding season they sing the whole night, in all kinds of 



key. 

 GOAT-SUCKER. I have seen them two or three summers, but do not regularly 



visit us. 



SWIFT. Common. 

 MARTIN. Ditto. 

 SWALLOW. Ditto. 

 SAND MARTIN. Seldom seen. 

 PIED WAGTAIL. Plentiful. 

 YELLOW WAGTAIL. Ditto. 

 HEDGE SPARROW. Abundant. 

 ROBIN. Ditto. 



REDSTART. Summer visitant, not so abundant as formerly. 

 BLACKCAP. Same remarks apply. 

 STONECHAT. Always to be seen. 

 W i IINCHAT. Sometimes seen. 

 WHEATEAR. Although a constant frequenter of the Cotteswolds, I have never 



seen but one specimen in this parish. 

 GRASSHOPPER LARK. Once heard in Furzenlease Coppice. 

 SEDGE WARBLER. Not uncommon. 

 NIGHTINGALE. Formerly abundant at Furzenlease, where many were snared 



and kept the winter in cages ; we now have scarcely one in the parish. 

 WHITE-THROAT. Very numerous. 



CHIT CHAT. Frequently heard. 



