ORNITHOLOGICAL NOTES FROM A SOUTH LONDON SUBURB. 
Bec. April 14th, 1900, three in Dulwich Park —two males 
and one female, one of the former in song; these were gone 
next day, the place—otherwise suitable—being far too noisy 
for such a quiet-loving species. April 23rd, 1907, a fine male 
on the outside of Dulwich Wood. April 21st, 1909, one in 
short song at the same place. 
NIGHTINGALE (Non-resident). 
Now of very rare occurrence, and breeds, to my know- 
ledge, nowhere nearer than Shirley or Beckenham. 
Both Dulwich and Sydenham Woods appear suitable 
enough and are quiet, yet I have never heard nor seen the bird 
there. My notes on the species are as follows. August 106th, 
1889, one seen in an old garden at Camberwell; and on June 
14th, the following year, one singing feebly at the same place ; 
however, I never heard it at other times, and therefore am 
doubtful as to the bird having nested there. My most note- 
worthy record is that on the 22nd May, 1891, I heard several 
singing, though not fully, on Tooting Common in the ev ening ; 
by “the next ‘day they had passed on. At the same place, on 
May 14th, 1897, | heard one bird uttering a few broken staves, 
and this is the last record of sozg in the district. A few days 
previously, I had heard a bird in fair song by the lake in the 
Crystal Palace grounds. 
Of autumn occurrences I have two other notes, viz. one 
in my garden, July 24th, 1896, and one on the railway bank 
near Denmark Hill station, on 3rd August, 1904. 
WOOD WREN (Resident). 
This, though not a regular visitor, has bred several times 
in Dulwich Wood. My first meeting with the bird was not 
until August 1894, when an immature example visited my 
garden on migration, and the following August I again saw 
one. However, in 1900 I was delighted fo find it in the 
spring in Dulwich Wood, and the birds remained to MeStie une 
following year a pair again nested, and also each year until 
1905, when two pairs stayed the summer. The nest is very 
beautifully concealed in the long rough herbage on the ground, 
and is not difficult to discover — especially “when the young 
are hatched—owing to the restless anxiety of the male bird, 
which, with his reiterated and plaintive “chee,” almost appears 
desirous of pointing out the whereabouts of his treasures. 
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