NOTES OF BIRDS. 91 



here and there one may undoubtedly be heard at all 

 seasons. 



The bunting and the sky-lark are species, of 

 which individuals may in like manner be heard during 

 a great part of the year, if the weather be favourable; 

 nevertheless many stop after the breeding-season, 

 about the end of July. White says of the sky-lark, 

 "sings in February, and on to October;" of the 

 bunting, "from the end of January to July." 



The hedge accentor, great titmouse, missel thrush, 

 song thrush, chaffinch, yellow-hammer, and golden- 

 crested wren, all these decidedly reassume their song 

 in autumn in this neighbourhood, with more or less 

 regularity, according to the character of the season. 

 Some of them are not mentioned by White as doing 

 this. 



The marsh tit, so far as I have observed, stops 

 earlier in the spring than the great tit, or almost 

 any other species ; but it will occasionally re-assume 

 its note towards the end of the year. The cole tit, 

 on the contrary, is heard during a great part of the 

 summer. 



White says, both of the thrush and blackbird, 

 that they re-assume their song in autumn. The 

 former, as already observed, is one of those species 

 that may be constantly heard at that season, and 

 sometimes on to the end of the year, if the weather 

 be mild ; but it is worthy of note, that the latter 

 never re-assumes in this neighbourhood. The black- 

 bird with us, from the time of its ceasing in July, is 

 invariably silent till the following February or March. 

 During a period of more than twenty years that I 



