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Mating Notes. 



10. Courtship. Elaborate cooing of male pigeon. 



11. Call to mate. Booming noise of male pigeon in nest. 



12. Love. Musical hissing note of starlings. 



13. Warning. " Cheee " of greenfinch. 



Personal Emotions. 



14. Domestic anxiety. "Tee-wee" of greenfinch. 



15. Menace. Hissing of wryneck. 



16. Fear. Clatter of frightened partridge. 



17. Distress. Screech of wounded sparrow in the hand. 



18. Self-assertion. Song of nightingale. 



Gregarious Notes. 



19. Conversation. Twitter of linnets. 



20. Call notes. Whistle of golden plover. 



21. Warning. "Chak-chak" of fieldfare. 



Under each head a description or imitation in words of any 

 note that may be heard should be placed, and I am sure 

 that the frequent use of a notebook for this purpose would 

 add considerably to the interest of country rambles. 1 



The Spring Awakening of the Sea. 



By F. G. Aflalo, F.R.G.S., F.Z.S. 



Naturalists are wont at this season of the year to frame 

 sympathetic accounts of the quickening hedge, the renais- 

 sance of the woods, the coming of the swallow and cuckoo, 

 the rearing of noisy broods — in short, the coming of spring. 

 There is an equally recurrent vitality in the waters on our 

 coasts, though, as returning bass and mackerel are less in 

 evidence than returning nightingales and blackcaps, these 

 vernal wanderings of fishes that had temporarily left our 

 shores for more genial winter haunts escape the notice of 

 most people. 



1 Readers will oblige by sending replies to the following address : Warham, 

 Wolls-next-Sea ; or c/o Editor, F. N. Q. 



