156 FIRST APPEARANCES OF BIRDS, INSECTS, ETC. 



June 3 At Canford we found a curious clutch of eggs, 

 which we (mistakenly W.P.C. thinks) left alone. 

 Three were entirely unspotted, the remaining 

 two had each one large blotch ; as if the entire 

 pigment matter secreted by the bird had been 

 deposited in two separate excretions. On one 

 egg the blotch tended to shew the ground 

 colour through, but in the other it was a solid 

 blotch about the size and shape of the full fed 

 larva of Pieris rapce, the Garden White Butter- 



fly- 



Nov. 13 Singing at Parkstone. (W.P.C. and E.H.C.) 



(38) Turdus iliacus. The Redwing. 



Feb. 27 About 50 seen in Longfleet in one company, 

 feeding wherever grass shewed through the 

 melting snow. 



Mar. 5 A good many Redwings still to be seen around 

 Poole. (E.H.C.) 



(39) Turdus pilaris. The Fieldfare. 



Jan. 8 On Broadstone Golf Links, four or five Field- 

 fares against the Sixth green. (W.P.C.) 



Mar. 5 A few still in the neighbourhood of Poole. 



Mar. 18 Two seen on Broadstone Golf Links on a spring- 

 like day. 



(40) Turdus merula. The Blackbird. 



Apr. 8 Unfinished nest seen at Poole. (E.H.C.) 



(41) Luscinia megarhyncha. The Common Nightingale. 



May 20 At Berewood in full song, except three pairs, 

 which, judging by the anxiety of both parents, 

 seemed to have young. (W.P.C.) 



