ORNITHOLOGICAL NOTES FROM A SOUTH LONDON SUBURB. 
RAVEN. 
One indubitable record, owing to the unmistakable croak- 
ing of a specimen which passed over me near Balham—some 
80 yards high—on January oth, 1894. 
HOODIE. 
This has been seen passing over on migration on four 
occasions, viz.:—-one on November 5th, 1880; one on Octo- 
ber 11th, 1890; and three on October 27th, 1893. I have a 
further record of a solitary specimen by the river-side at Batter- 
sea Park, January 30th, 1902. The fourth migrant occurr- 
ence was noted this last autumn—seven birds passed W. over 
my garden on October 20th, “ varrock”-ing loudly. 
NUTCRACKER. 
Although a hundred yards or so distant, I am satisfied as 
to my correct identification of this wandering straggler. On 
April 14th, 1905, I saw it crossing the golf round near Lord- 
ship Lane to the wooded rise at Sydenham, where it alighted 
with a low dip among some fir trees. In the year 1880, the 
late Mr. Parsloe, a Brixton bird-stuffer, showed me a mounted 
specimen which he had obtained some fifteeen years previ- 
ously in the same Dulwich Meadows. 
DUNLIN. 
Of the occurrence of this bird I have only three notes, 
and, strange to say, two of them in the same year. In 1876, 
I heard the call of passing birds, going W., at 10.30 on the 
night of April 20th, and again of others on the autumn passage 
on August 12th, after dark. The third record was on Novem- 
ber 8th, 1890, when a solitary example crossed my garden, 
going W., just behind and below a flock of migrant Larks,— 
a rather extraordinary occurrence. 
REDSHANK. 
This species has occurred once only, and was detected by 
its note. In the forenoon of December 8th, 1880, a noisy party 
passed in a westerly direction over Brixton, above a thick fog, 
which accompanied the intense frost then prevailing. 
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