1 62 MY NATURE NOTEBOOK. 



the name is not appropriate either to the young or 

 the females, both of which have caps of rusty brown. 

 The black cap is the only summer songster which 

 rivals the nightingale, and this one had, of course, 

 been carried far out of its way ; but it would not 

 matter much, for this little warbler has been known 

 to spend the whole winter in England sometimes. 



SUMMER AND WINTER BIRDS TOGETHER. 



Dainty wheatears, showing gleams of white in 

 their graceful dipping flight along the coast-line, with 

 tree pipits, which look like fine yellow-tinged meadow 

 pipits, were also apparently fresh arrivals from Norway 

 on the 6th, both summer birds on their southward 

 journey ; but one undoubted foreigner who had come 

 over in numbers for the winter was the redwing. This 

 handsome little thrush, easily distinguished by his 

 bright yellow eyebrow and ruddy flank, had been 

 suspected for some days among the flock of migrant 

 thrush-birds feeding on the haws in the hedges, but 

 he is too shy, except when starving in hard weather, 

 to permit a near approach, so he was not identified 

 before the 6th, though the first flocks probably came 

 on the 2nd or $rd. The hooded crows which arrived 

 in the previous week seemed to have passed on, and 

 no others had come to take their places, though every 

 day fresh flocks of bramblings and other small birds 

 seemed to make the passage of the sea. 



