ORNITHOLOGICAL NOTES FROM A SOUTH LONDON SUBURB. 
THE CORN AND REED BUNTINGS 
Have never been noted nearer than Wallington and Car- 
shalton respectively, and are only mentioned to show that they 
have not been overlooked in this district. 
GOLDCREST. 
This may breed in the Crystal Palace district, in which I 
have most often come across it, but I cannot claim the species 
as a resident; in fact, during the last ten years I have seen at 
the most three specimens. In former years it was not uncom- 
mon in early spring about the large gardens at Clapham Park 
and Balham—now for the most part ‘covered with buildings,— 
and I have one record from that part in the month of July,— 
the only summer note. Most often, however, the bird occurred 
in autumn as a migrant, and in the late seventies fairly regularly 
so; since then so rarely that I find only two notes in the nineties 
and once since (1905). 
MAGPIE. 
Very few occurrences have been recorded. I have seen 
specimens in the high trees at Tooting Bec, and also in Syden- 
ham Wood, each time in the month of April. 
GREAT SPOTTED WOODPECKER. 
A great rarity, as might be expected, but I have the follow- 
ing records. The first was seen on an oak stem near Champion 
Hill in August, 1876; the second—nineteen years after—on the 
outskirts of Dulwich Wood, April 14th, 1905. On 11th April, 
the following year, in the middle of the same wood, I got close 
to a fine male bird which was restless and evidently mate-seek- 
ing, as it repeatedly “jarred” in the same manner as its smaller 
relative, but im a deeper tone. On March roth, this year, one 
flew by me at the entrance to Dulwich Wood. 
GREEN WOODPECKER. 
This species I have twice found wandering in the district, 
and on both occasions quite recently. On March 30th, 1905, I 
heard one “laugh” several times in Dulwich Wood, and in 
almost the identical part of the wood, in the following spring, 
one was quite vociferous for some little time. 
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