284 Country Rambles. 



THE SISKIN (Carduelts spinus), ii., 109. 



The siskin visits us in November and December, but 

 sometimes not for seven or eight years together, 

 though coming plentifully when it chooses to make 

 its appearance. 



THE MEALY RED-POLE ( Linarla canescens), ii., 112. 

 Comes and goes in flocks with the siskins, and at 

 equally long and uncertain intervals. 



THE COMMON SNIPE (Scolopax Gallinago), iv., 227. 

 Abundant, haunting old brick-pits and unfrozen brooks; 

 plentiful about Gorton, Belle Vue, and Cheetham 

 Hill. 

 THE JACK SNIPE (Scolopax Gallinula), iv., 228. 



A smaller bird than the common snipe; not so plentiful, 

 but often seen in company with it. 



THE WOODCOCK (Scolopax rusticola), iv., 225. 



Formerly very plentiful about Hough-end, but now 

 rare, owing to the filling up of the pits and the 

 clearing away of the brushwood. 



III. CASUAL, STRAY, AND OCCASIONAL 

 BIRDS. 



Several of the birds named below are permanent 

 residents in the British Islands, and others are regular 

 visitors to this country. They are put in the present 

 place because seen near Manchester only at uncertain 

 intervals, or as casuals, the only one that can be looked 

 for with any degree of probability, being the sea-gull. 



