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mice that abound everywhere. Kestrels are quite common, but

the sparrow hawk is not.


The great tit is very common, mostly of the continental

variety. Col. Tweedie saw a yellow wagtail; I was not so lucky,

but saw a good number of grey wagtails ( Matacilla melanupe )

looking very pretty with their yellow flanks.


I enclose a list of the birds seen by me here, leaving out

the migrants that were here when we arrived at the latter end of

August.


The cirl bunting and greater spotted woodpecker were seen at

the beginning of March, in a village some miles south of the district

where the other birds were seen.


The list is made in the order in which I saw the birds.


List of birds seen from September till March (1915-16) in

and behind the trenches in Flanders :—



Rook


Little Owl

Crested Lark

Skylark

Great Tit

Blue Tit

Moorhen

Little Grebe

Kingfisher

Hooded Crow

Carrion Crow

Starling

Blackbird

Song Thrush

Redwing

Fieldfare

Missel-thrush

House Sparrow

Tree Sparrow

Jay

Magpie


Woodpigeon ...



Corvus frugilegus.

Athene noctna.

Alaucla cristata.

Alauda arvensis.

Parus major.


P. cceruleus.

Gallinula chloropus.

Podicipes fluviatilis.

Alcedo ispida.


Corvus cornix.


Corvus corone.

Sturnus vulgaris.

Turdus merula.

Turdus musicus.

Turdus iliacus.

Turdus pilaris.

Turdus viscivorus.

Passer domesticus.

Passer montanus.

Garrulus glandarius.

Pica rustica.

Columha palumbus.



