ORNITHOLOGICAL NOTES. 545 



(Acredula caudata), the Nuthatch (Sitta ccesia), the Creeper 

 ( Certhia familiaris). 



The above birds remained from March 1st to April 30th, 

 with the exception of the following : the Green and Grey- 

 headed Green Woodpeckers, the Common Wren, the Fire- 

 crested Wren, the Siskin, the Bullfinch, the Coal, Marsh, and 

 Long-tailed Tits. There came, in addition, on April 3rd the 

 Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (Picus minor), a bird that I had 

 never before observed in Bohemia, and which was perfectly 

 black from the smoke ; on April 19th the Wryneck (lynx 

 torquilla) ; after the end of March, the Kestrel (Falco tinnun- 

 culus) ; after the middle of April, the Redstart (Ruticilla 

 pltcenicurus), the Black Redstart (R. tithys) ; after the begin- 

 ning of March, the Song-Thrush (Turdus musicus] and the 

 Redwing ( T. iliacus) , both of which arrived together, but stayed 

 a very short time, the Hedge- Sparrow (Accentor modularis), 

 the Yellows-Hammer (Emberiza citrinella), the Greenfinch 

 (Ligurinus chloris), large flocks of the Goldfinch (Carduelis 

 elegant)^ which only remained for one day, the Serin Finch 

 (Serinus hortulanns), and the Swallow (Hirundo rustica). 



The Shrikes, the Flycatchers, and our best songsters, the 

 Warblers, were still absent, at any rate from the gardens in 

 Prague ; but some miles south of the town, by the banks of 

 the river Sazawa, which are thickly covered with willow 

 bushes, I saw on April 28th a few Great Reed- Warblers 

 (AcJ-ocephalus turdoides) and Reed- Warblers (A. arundinaceus) , 

 ind on the meadows several Whinchats (Pratincola rubetra) 

 and one Stonechat (P. rubicola), while the Wheatear (Saxi- 

 cola cenanthe) was everywhere flitting about the stony slopes 

 of the hills. 



