ee ieae NOTES FROM A SOUTH LONDON SUBURB. 
TSESIRIVE IE. 
But seldom seen. The following are the only notes. Octo- 
ber 10th; 1875, one over my garden; December 29th, 1870, 
one over Barrington Road; April 25th, 1900, one over Brix- 
ton Road; April 5th and August rith, 1902, on each occasion 
the bird was seen hunting over the meadows by Burbage Road. 
TAWNY OWL. 
This species came into my list so lately as 1906. In the 
autumn of that year, and again in 1908, a friend, living on 
the Borders of Mitcham Common, heard this bird on many 
occasions in September and the early winter months. 
GOLDFINCH. 
Of rare occurrence as a wild bird, but solitary examples 
have on several occasions pitched upon my aviary, owing to 
the attractions inside that erection. These individuals, hav- 
ing appeared in nearly all instances in the months of June and 
July, I feel inclined to classify as escapes. However, | have 
now and then noted a solitary bird passing over in September 
or October, when other Finches were on the move, and all such 
examples I should reckon as truly wild specimens. 
SUS ISSTNG 
I have only one record of the occurrence of this species 
in a wild state. In 1892, two birds passing over the garden 
in a westerly direction on November Ist, were arrested by the 
call of those in my aviary, and on this they alighted and rested 
for a short time. Some three or four specimens have beea 
caught near my own birds, but from their tameness they were 
undoubtedly escapes. 
YELLOW HAAMMER. 
Has never occurred except irregularly, and does not breed, 
I believe, this side of Croydon. 1 have no record of any speci- 
men in my neighbourhood since April 22nd, 1894, when one 
repeatedly uttered its call-note from a neighbouring garden. 
All previous occurrences, and they were fairly frequent in the 
first fifteen years of my residence, were in the early spring 
months, at the time of the regular local migration of this species. 
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