ORNITHOLOGICAL NOTES FROM A SOUTH LONDON SUBURB. 
been destroyed, with the resulting banishment of this and 
several other interesting species. On 10th September, this 
year, I watched a comparatively tame example at Dulwich Lake 
for quite half an hour. 
PEEWIT. 
Of this species I know of no nearer breeding place than 
the Carshalton neighbourhood. I do not think it ever nests 
now on Mitcham Common, although it is sometimes to be seen 
there in the summer months, and even so near as Dulwich J 
noted solitary examples in June, 1900, and May, 1901, in the 
meadows. Over Brixton proper it has occasionally been ob- 
served in spring and autumn, though Tate) at the first season, 
in which I have only two records, viz. : —March 13th, 1890, and 
March 14th, 1895, when small flocks passed over my garden, 
high up, and going west. Some of the autumn movement 
notes are early, for on July 7th, 1897, a company of 38 birds 
flew N. over my garden, and on June oth, 1905, a party of 9 
passed N.W. over Clapham; these birds would, of course, be 
home-bred local migrants. The later passage of foreign birds 
in the month of October I have noticed only three times, whilst 
an occasional solitary bird has passed over during hard weather. 
A party of 25 foreign migrants passed N.W. over my garden 
on 10th of last October. 
DABCHICKs. 
I have no record of the breeding of this species in ihe 
district, yet 1t used to appear on our lakes and ponds every 
spring and autumn, and was a particularly regular visitor to 
the Dulwich Park lake until boating was introduced, at times 
making a long stay and becoming comparatively tame. In 
April, 1898, and again in 1902, examples appeared in full 
breeding plumage, and stayed for more than a week, whilst 
on 4th June, 1904, a bird in summer dress took up residence 
on the lake, and was to be seen almost daily until the Toth 
August. On April 5th, 1905, a bright specimen was continu- 
ally ‘ ‘trilling ”’ ie more than an hour. Autumn visitors have 
been seen in large numbers. On roth October, 1900, there 
were Q on a pond at Mitcham, and on September 5th, 1901, 
there were 15 together at the same place. Occasionally I have 
seen a specimen at one of the small sheltered ponds in Brock- 
well Park. The species, as is probably well known, breeds 
on St. James’ Park lake in some years. 
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