ORNITHOLOGICAL NOTES FROM A SOUTH LONDON SUBURB. 
From my notes on this pretty and interesting species I find 
the following with regard to the duration of the call-note and 
song :— 
1900. First song, May 12th, and “chee” the same day ; 
the song was continued until the 13th July, but 
the “chee” not heard after June 27th. 
1901 First song, May roth. 
1902. “Chee” heard, May 22nd; no song; did not remain 
LOMMest: 
1904 First song, May 11th; first “chee,” on 16th. 
1905 First song, May 5th; continued regularly until 13th 
June, and last heard on the 26th. 
1906 May 18th, two singing at once, but neither heard 
after. 
1907. First song, May 11th; “chee,” on 25th. 
1908 First song, a very feeble trill, April 30th, and not 
heard after. 
1909 First song, May oth, and regularly until 30th; did 
not stay to breed. 
WILLOW WREN (Resident). 
Breeds in some numbers in Dulwich Wood, and sparingly 
on Tooting and Mitcham Commons. It is a regular autumn 
visitor to our Brixton gardens, in August and September, when 
on its way south. The earliest note of song is April 7th, and 
the latest April 27th; the average date would be about the 
16th, and it usually continued until the middle or even end 
of July. 
The autumn migrants appear early in August-—sometimes 
in the last days of July—and continue to pass through the dis- 
trict until mid-September, occasionally as late as the third week. 
The usual note of these is the soft “fuit,” but the young males 
may be heard trying their voices—the result being but a short 
and faint representation of the melodious whistling warble of 
the adult in spring. Like most of the autumn migrants here, 
the numbers vary greatly in different years, but it is certain 
that during the last ten years this species has shown itself less 
regularly and in fewer numbers than formerly. The locality 
of the nest is somewhat easily guessed, but the structure itself 
not so readily found, hidden, as it usually is, in the long grass 
of a bank, and having a tunnel-like approach with but a very 
small aperture. 
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