ORNITHOLOGICAL NOTES FROM A SOUTH LONDON SUBURB. 
being always associated with Chafhnches. The rarer Finches, 
Wag-tails and Pipits are very irregular in appearance, and not 
seen every year. 
Of the Thrush tribe, Fieldfares and Redwings are always 
travelling when seen, but Blackbirds and Thrushes are never 
actually so doing, although at the time of passage of other 
species they become suddenly common in the parks and gar- 
dens. With Robins or Wrens it is the same. Hedge-sparrows, 
on the contrary, are often on the move westward from garden 
to garden, usually in parties of 4 to ©. 
Tits—chiefly Great and Blue—which often travel together, 
are at times joined by the Coletit, and, still more rarely, by the 
Marsh and Long-tailed. Restless and undecided as their move- 
ments seem to be, by careful watching it will be noticed that 
these movements from tree to tree are always taking them in a 
westerly direction; such Tits, I should observe, are the October 
or foreign Tits. The partial migration in July and August of 
the locally-bred birds is of quite a different character; these 
are changing their quarters leisurely, and feeding as they go 
The migration above described is the autumnal movement 
only; in spring, except for the Swallow tribe, I see very little 
of the actual arrivals. The migration of Hirundines differs in 
some respects from that of other birds, and will be described 
later on, but they alone afford me regular notes when the wind 
is W. or N. of W., between the third week of April and end of 
May. Their direction at this time of year is N. of W., whilst 
those departing take a south-west course, it appearing some- 
thing of an anomaly that the lines taken by arriving and depart- 
ing birds should be so nearly similar. 
The illustrations are from photos taken in the district by 
members of my family, and by the Chaucer Post-card Publish- 
ing Company of Herne Hill, who very kindly gave me permis- 
sion to reproduce them here. 
The number of species observed, and now to be reviewed, 
is 125. They will be most conveniently considered under the 
following heads :— 
I. Residents, comprising 29 species. 
Il. Summer visitors, numbering 37 species—of which 17 
have been found nesting, though only 13 do so 
now; Q are seen only ‘occasionally ; and © are 
reckoned accidental. 
III. Winter migrants, 18. 
IV. Occasional 24;—9 summer; I5 autumn and winter. 
V. Accidental 26;—6 summer; 20 autumn and winter: 
VI. Various, 6. 
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