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Gregarious, feeding along with other Thrushes. Roosts on 

 trees in deep woods. Leaves us in May. 



26. Blackbird. Ttcrdns Merula. Plentiful. Permanently 

 resident. Subject to variety. 



27. Ring Ouzel. Turdus torquatus. An occasional summer 

 visitor to Charnwood. 



28. Hedge Accentor. Accentor modularis. Plentiful. Sings 

 throughout the year. Subject to variety. 



29. Redbreast. Erithacus Rubecida. Plentiful. Very pugna- 

 cious in the autumnal months. Subject to variety. 



30. Redstart. Ruticilla Phoenicurus. A summer visitor, arriv- 

 ing toward the end of April, and departing about the au- 

 tumnal equinox. Frequents old walls about towns ; nest- 

 ling in holes of old walls or buildings, and in hollow pol- 

 lards, particularly willows. 



31. Stonechat. Fruticicola Ruhicola. Permanently resident. 

 Frequents waste, solitary places, where gorse and fern 

 abound, seldom visiting cultivated lands. 



32. Whinchat. Fruticicola Rubetra. A summer visitor, arriving 

 about the 20th of April, and departing toward the close of 

 September. Aifects our rich and cultivated fields, as well 

 as moist meadows ; nestling on the ground. 



33. Wheatear. Saxicola CEnanthe. A summer visitor. The 

 males arrive toward the close of JNlarch, the females about 

 a week after. At first they frequent the fallows and grass 

 fields ; then betake themselves to the higher districts of 

 Bradgate Park and Charnwood Forest, where they breed 

 undisturbed in the rabbit holes, and are very plentiful. De- 

 parts toward the close of September. 



34. Grasshopijer Warbler. Sibilatrix Locustella. A summer 

 visitor, arriving about the 20th of April. Pretty plentiful, 

 frequenting most of our thick hedge- rows, wherever they 

 are overgrown with brambles. 



35. Sedge Warbler. Calamoherpe pliragmitis. A summer visitor, 

 not arriving before the close of April, and seldom heard till 

 May. Abundant. Affixes its nest to three or four reed- 

 stalks or osiers. Haunts hedges which skirt the woodlands, 



