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NOTICES OF THE ARRIVAL OF THE SUMMER BIRDS OP PASSAGE, 

 AT HEADSWOOD AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD, DURING THE YEAR 1851, 



BY MR. THOMAS TAYLOR. 



No. 



10. 

 11. 

 12. 

 13. 

 14. 

 15. 

 16. 

 17. 

 18. 

 19. 

 20. 



NAMES OF THE SPECIES. 



Sand Martin 



Swallow 



House Martin 



Swift 



Goat Sucker 



Spotted Flycatcher. . . 



Ring Ouzel 



Eodstart 



Whcatear 



"Wliinchat 



Blackcap 



Wliitethroat 



Willow "Wren 



Wood Wren , 



Sedge Bird 



Grasshopper Warbler 

 Tree Lark, or Pipit,. 



Cuckoo 



Land-rail 



Common Sandpiper. . 



Headswood is on the Roman Wall, a little to the south-west of Peiriona, 

 the thirteenth station, and nearly two miles from Brampton, Cumherland. — 

 Ileadswood J Cumherlandy June 2iid., 1851. 



The Bat. — A relative of mine was fishing in Folly Copse, on the Dart, near 

 Totncs, Devon, last year, and discovered a Bat suspended by an artificial fly 

 and foot line, which some one had lost in one of the trees overhanging the 

 river, and which it had seized. It was still alive, and he secured it, as well as the 

 gut and fly by which it hung. The fly was nearly destroyed by the efforts of 

 the Bat to obtain its freedom. — S. Haniicford, Jim., Kiveton Park, May 1\)tli., 

 1851. 



Ned of the House Pigeon. — In ^^The Naturalist" of March, Mr. Hannaford 

 states, that the House Pigeon uses twigs in the formation of its nest: I beg 

 to confirm his statement. I have found it very constantly in the Tumbler 

 breeds, and likewise in cross-breeds from the Tumbler. Out of a flock of about 

 forty Pigeons that I have had at a time, at least one-third of them constructed 

 their nests of twigs. After the birds had laid, I generally removed the twigs 

 from the nesting pans, leaving the eggs upon the sawdust; so that they were 



