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Coggs' Coppice^ [ill lit.). In an interesting note on the nest- 

 ing of the Woodcock, in the Zoologist (1880, p. 63), the Rev. A. 

 Matthews writes — 'While we were residing in Oxfordshire, 

 now twenty-five years ago . . . few years passed by in which 

 a Woodcock's nest was not discovered in one or another of the 

 great woods of Oxfordshire, and the adjacent counties/ 



Turtle Dove (p. 125). On the nth May, 1889, 1 counted 

 thirteen Turtle Doves, males and females, in a field of young 

 barley between Bloxham and Barford, the only occasion 

 on which I ever met with any number of these birds to- 

 gether at that season. Doubtless they were new arrivals, 

 and the sudden return of dull, cold weather may have had 

 something to do with their flocking. They were feeding 

 very eagerly, and when put up flew only a short distance 

 before settling again. A pretty effect was produced by 

 their broad, graduated, white-tipped tails when they all rose 

 on the wing'. 



E-EDSHANK (p. 162). An example in full summer plumage 

 was shot on the Cherwell at Twyford Mill, a few miles below 

 Banbury, on the 4th May, 1889. 



Lessee, Redpole (p. 94). Several pairs appear to be 

 breeding in the parks at Oxford this year (1889). 



Grey Wagtail (p. 76). A pair of these elegant birds have 

 at the present time (May, 1889) taken up their quarters at 

 the Mill on the Swere at Barford St. Michael, and evidently 

 from their behaviour have a nest in some secure place in the 

 stonework of the flood-gates. They are generally to be seen 

 running about over the large stones in the rushing waters 

 below the gates, or perched in the overhanging wallows. The 

 hand-rail of the wooden foot-bridge further down the stream 

 is also a favourite resting-place. 



CiRL Bunting (p. 83). Early in May, 1889, I saw a 

 male of this species close to the village of Bloxham. My 

 attention was first drawn to its presence by its sibilant song, 

 which I had heard previously only in the South of England. 



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