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fBlue Tit. Lesser Redpole. 



Cole Tit, Bullfinch. 



Marsh Tit. fStarling. 



fLong Tailed Tit. fCarrion Crow. 



Pied Wagtail. fRook. 



Grey Wagtail. fJackdaw. 



Ray's Wagtail. Great Spotted Woodpecker. 



Tree Pipit. f Common Creeper. 



Meadow Pipit. Wren, 



f Sky lark. *f Swallow. 



Common Bunting. fMivrtin. 



fChafflnch. t Swift - 



fHouse Sparrow. Nightjar. 



Greenfinch. tWfld Duck. 



Hawfinch. fMoorhen. 



Goldfinch. Coot. 



Common Linnet. 



Those marked * have been observed to breed in the Society's 

 Gardens ; those marked -f- have been observed by myself or 

 Mr. Searle, my secretary, in my little garden, 37, Albanv 

 .Street, or in Regent's Park adjoining. The cuckoo was also seen 

 this year, 1875, in the long walk by Mr. Searle. 



BIRDS' CHOPS, p. 84. In his lectures on Geology at Oxford, my 

 father used to tell us that the sellers of antiquities at Rome had a 

 curious and clever way of giving the appearance of antiquity to 

 modem gems. Having cut the device on the stones, they thrust 

 them down the throat of a turkey into his gizzard ; after the 

 proper time had passed they killed the bird ; the stones in the 

 crop were then found to have assumed the corrugated appear- 

 ance of antiquity from the grinding action of the hard coats 

 of the turkey's gizzard. In my collection I have some fine 

 specimens of stones found in guano polished by the action 

 of birds' stomachs. 



SEDGEBIRD, p. 86. Mr. Davy thinks it is very likely that 

 the bird here mentioned by White was the reed-warbler, or 

 reed-wren. If disturbed by any means during the night it 

 immediately commences its song, which resembles a mixture 

 of other songs of birds, a regular gibberish altogether. In 

 some parts of the country they call it the " thousand songster." 

 These birds partially resemble the reed-sparrow ; they are 

 migratory. The young birds do not come to their full plumage 

 till the following spring. 



SNAKE-TAMING IN LONDON, p. 86. A friend of mine, Mr. Mann, 

 Professor of Music, has a most remarkable power of taming 

 snakes. I now describe my first introduction to his snakery. 



