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week old, on the 4tli of June. Incubation sometimes 

 begins before the full complement of eggs is laid, as I 

 have found to happen in several instances. 



SUBFAMILY ACCEXTORIN.E.— GENUS ACCENTOR. 



HEDGE-SPAKEOW. 



Accentor nodularis (Linnaeus). 



Local Names — Di/lic, Dt/kic-Sjfarroir, Duiuwck, Diiiniy, 

 Hedgc-dunnji. 



A resident species, and common, where there is any 

 cover, throughout the whole county. It remains the 

 hardest winters, not often more than two or three being 

 seen together, and is very tame and sociable, keeping 

 with the fowls about the barns. In favourable weather 

 it will sing at any period of the year. It is double- 

 brooded, and the well-known blue eggs of the first 

 brood are laid from the middle of April to the first week 

 in Ma}', and are four or five in number. 



FAMILY CINCLID.E.— GENUS CINCLUS. 



DIPPER. 



CiNCLus AQUATicus, Bechstein. 



Local Names — Water-Ouzel, Water-Crmc, J^essie-doickcr, 

 Bcttrj-doicher. 



Piesident, and remaining on the inland streams even 

 in hard winters, though in the very severest — as, for 

 instance, that of 1878-79 — it disappears. It is essen- 



