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heard the following birds during the few 
hours we spent here (I took a note of each) : 
hedge-sparrow, chiffchaff, cuckoo, red-backed 
shrike, pied fly-catcher, willow wren, 
whitethroat, wryneck, greenfinch, yellow- 
hammer, blue tit, nightingale, pied wagtail, 
common (jinny) wren, bullfinch, moorhen, 
kestrel, jay, great spotted woodpecker, 
peewit, ringdove, butcher bird, redstart, 
crossbill, longtailed and cole tit ; and there 
were doubtless some others that we did not 
notice. Oh! that some fairy had shown us all 
their nests ; but to photograph them, which 
I always do in duplicate, would have needed 
many journeys with the half-dozen double 
slides which I generally take. But we hope 
to find them all—some day. 
We heard the blackbird and the thrush 
more frequently than any other bird, but 
chaffinches proved close rivals. The rich 
thrills of the nightingale arrested us each time 
they fell upon our ears—and who could tire 
of such song! They were singing during the 
gay,."becit noted (see Part I, p. 31): ‘The 
