BIRDS OF LEICESTERSHIRE. • 663 



dent. Abundant, and widely dispersed. Very subject to 

 malformation of the bill, of which I have seen many exam- 

 ples. 

 110. Common Quail. Perdix Coturnix. A summer visitor. 

 Not uncommon. A few pairs annually nestle in the mea- 

 dows bordering the Soar. In June found in the meadows 

 about Loughborough and Cossington. 



Of the 110 species here enumerated, 55 are permanently re- 

 sident ; 29 summer birds which breed w^itli us, but depart in 

 autumn ; 9 regular winter visitors ; and 17 stragglers or irre- 

 gular visitants, some of wdiich appear in summer, and others 

 in winter. 



The above List, the only one hitherto published, of the Birds 

 of Leicestershire, will, I trust, in so far as it goes, be found to 

 afford a correct idea of the number and distribution of our 

 Terrestrial species. The Aquatic birds, which are proportion- 

 ally fewer, will form the subject of another list. 



Ganendon Park, mentioned in these notes, belongs to Charles 

 March Phillips, Esq., formerly Member of Parliament for this 

 county, and lies on the northern verge of Charnwood Forest. 

 It contains about four hundred and twenty acres, is finely 

 wooded, and abounds with deer. There was an Abbey here 

 formerly, founded in 1133, by Kobert Bossu, Earl of Leices- 

 ter, as a cell to Waverly Abbey, for monks of the Cistertian 

 order. 



Bradgate Park belongs to the present Earl of Stamford, and 

 is celebrated as being the birth-place of Lady Jane Grey. The 

 mansion is now in ruins. The park is large, contains much deer, 

 and, being situated in the midst of little-explored woodlands, 

 is highly interesting to the ornithologist. 



It seems somewhat strange that migration should be so little 

 influenced by the state of the weather, and that in the remark- 

 ably genial spring of 1 S-IO, our summer birds should not have 

 arrived at an earlier period than usual, A single Swallow was 



