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ORNITHOLOGICAL NOTES 



FROM 



MAY IST TO 31ST, 1882. 



IN continuation of my first series of notes I will now cite 

 some further dates in the order in which they were set 

 down. 



On May 1st I saw, close to Prague, a good many Sand- 

 Martins ( Cotyle riparia) flying ahout a large deep sand-pit, far 

 from all water. 



On May 2nd, as I was waiting for the coining of the Caper- 

 caillie cocks at the edge of a young plantation of pines that 

 adjoined a high beech-wood, a Woodcock flew past, uttering 

 its note loudly. This was at half-past six in the evening, and 

 it was therefore still quite light. I soon afterwards saw the 

 first White-collared Flycatchers (Muscicapa albicollis). The 

 weather was rainy and mild, and the vegetation was very for- 

 ward even in that raw district, the beeches and larches being 

 clad in the richest green. 



After being silent for eight days the cock Capercaillies 

 again began calling lustily ; previously they had only been 

 heard here and there, so that it was generally believed that 

 the drumming-time was already over ; on May 2nd and 3rd, 

 however, it was going on in the woods just as merrily as 

 during the height of the season. For several years past I 



