56 h. lewis — birds observed in 1893. 



Species. Locality. Date. Observer. 



Cuckoo Broxbourne April 18.... Lady F. Bushby. 



{Cuculus canorus) Hitchiu ,, 19 J. E. Little. 



Berkbamsted ,, 22 Mrs. E. Mawley. 



TuRTLE-DoTE Smallford, St. Albans ,, 23 Artbur Smith. 



[Tio-tur communis) St. Albans ,, 25 H. L. 



CoRXCRAKE or Landrail.. St. Albans May 2 H. L. 



[C'rex pratensis) 

 Sandpiper Eedbourn Bury, St. 



{Totanm hypoleueus) Albans April 3 E. "W. Arnold. 



"Winter Yisitants. 



Species. Locality. Date. Observer. 



Eedwing St. Albans Sept. 24 Arthur Dickinson. 



{Turd us iliac us) 



Gkey Wagtail St. Albans Oct. 1 H. L. 



[Motacilla melanope) 



Mr. "Warde Powler, in his book ' A Year with the Birds,' so 

 aptly expresses my views and feelings with regard to our feathered 

 songsters that I cannot do better than quote his words. He says 

 (page 44) : " Nothing but a personal acquaintance — a friendship as 

 I must call it in my own case — with these little birds, as they live 

 their every-day life among us, will suffice to fix the individuality 

 of each species in the mind : not even the best plates in a book, or 

 the faded and lifeless figures in a museum. You may shoot and 

 dissect them, and study them as you would study and label a set of 

 fossils : but a bird is a living thing, and you will never really know 

 him till you fully understand how he lives." And I may add that 

 the more we thus become acquainted with nature so much the 

 more must our minds expand. Mr. Thomas Edison, the greatest 

 of modem inventors, has spoken thus : "I tell you that no person 

 can be brought into close contact with the mysteries of nature, 

 . . . without being convinced that behind it all there is a supreme 

 intelligence." 



I cannot conclude without thanking those ladies and gentlemen, 

 especially Mr, T. Hope, who have so kindly assisted me with 

 extracts, information, and records, without which it would have 

 been impossible for me to have written this report. 



