NOTES OF BIRDS. 



97 



A. M. 



Domestic Cock crowing . . . . 1 hr. 51 min. 



Skylark singing ; . . ........ 58 min. 



Ring-dove cooing . . . . . ' . 2 hrs. 2 min. 



Collared Turtle (Columba risoria), in confine- 

 ment, cooing . '.: 5 min. 



Duck quacking . . . . . . . 21 min. 



Blackbird, one individual singing ... ,,24 min. 



Redbreast singing . . . . . ,,27 min. 



Swallow singing ...... ,,28 min. 



Thrush singing ...... ,,30 min. 



Blackbirds everywhere singing ... ,,32 min. 



Guinea-fowl calling ..... ,,33 min. 



Thrushes everywhere singing ... ,,35 min. 



Ring-doves everywhere cooing ... ,,38 min. 



Rooks, a few cawing ..... ,,40 min. 



Cuckoo heard ...... ,,48 min. 



Yellow-hammer singing .... 53 min. 



Rooks on wing, beginning to leave their nest-trees 57 min. 



Chaffinch singing ..... 3 hrs. 3 min. 



House Sparrows chirping .... ,,10 min. 



Jackdaw (Corvus monedula) on wing and cawing 14 min. 



Lesser Whitethroat (Curruca sylviella) singing 25 min. 



Turtle-dove heard ..... ,,31 min. 



N. B. The thrushes and blackbirds, which had 

 been singing everywhere incessantly from 

 half past two, or shortly after, at this time 

 became silent. 



Starlings (Sturnus vulgar is) chattering 

 Stock-dove (Columba anas) heard . " V' v 

 Linnet singing . . .. -. . - 4 . 

 Greenfinch ( Coccothraustes Moris) singing 



Wren singing 



One Thrush resumed its song 



40 min. 

 46 minx 

 55 min. 

 4 hrs. 



16 min. 

 20 min. 



No other species noticed previously to half past 

 four, at which time I ceased observing. 



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