Occasional Visitors. 287 



It took place in 1863. The first came to Wilmslow 

 early in May, establishing itself in the little grove 

 near the end of Bollin Hall Park, on the Manchester 

 side of the railway viaduct. For several weeks it 

 sang nightly, and the crowds of people who were 

 attracted by the fame of the bird from distances of 

 many miles, at last became quite a trouble to that 

 usually quiet neighbourhood. The second took up 

 its lodging in a grove close to the Strines Printworks, 

 where, says Mr. Joel Wainwright,* no greater sensa- 

 tion was ever caused by a little thing. It began at 

 ten every night, and continued almost uninterruptedly 

 until three a.m. A third is said to have visited a 

 plantation adjacent to the railway station at Sale, 

 but over this one there may possibly have been an 

 error. 



THE SNOW BUNTING (Emberiza nivalis), ii., 95. 



Occasionally visits us in severe winters, breeding in 

 Norway and Sweden. 



THE MOUNTAIN FINCH, OR BRAMBLING (Fringilla monti- 



fringilla), ii., 103. 

 Visits us from the north in winter time, but rarely. 



THE PECTORAL SAND-PIPER (Tringa pectoralis), iv., 239. 

 Once by a pit near the White House, Stretford Road. 



* In loc. tit., p. 20, 



