616 NOTES FROM NEAR SVIENNA. 
had met with a Nutcracker in the immediate neighbourhood 
of Vienna. 
The Dipper (Cinclus aquaticus), too, appeared last year on 
the brooks at Laxenburg, but again only when the cold weather 
had set in. 
The passage of the Woodcock was also very irregular this 
autumn, for these birds, which only frequent the low hilly 
parts of Transylvania on migration, showed themselves there 
in large numbers from the 10th to the end of October, and by 
November the flight was over in those districts. In Hungary, 
however, especially in the wooded plains east of Pest, I met 
with some as early as September 12th, and the flight seems 
to have lasted well into November, though there were never 
many of them. 
Still more peculiar was their behaviour in Lower Austria, 
for the first came to the Laxenburg park at the end of October, 
after that there were but very few in this part of the country, 
and by the middle of November none at all, the flight being 
apparently over. Iwas therefore greatly astonished at finding 
five of them in a little cover in the Wiener Wald near Laab 
on November 28th, and at meeting with a great many in the 
auen for some days after, the last on December 3rd. The 
cold, however, which has now set in has probably put an end to 
this abnormal appearance of the Woodcock. 
