tumn songsters is, because in the first two seasons 

 their voices are drowned and lost in the general 



chorus ; in the 

 latter their song 

 becomes distin- 

 guishable. Many 

 songsters of the 

 autumn seem to 

 be the young 

 cock redbreasts 

 of that year : 

 notwithstanding 

 the prejudices 

 in their favour, 

 they do much 

 mischief in gar- 

 dens to the sum- 

 mer-fruits. They 

 eat also the ber- 

 ries of the ivy, the honeysuckle, and the Euonymus 

 Europceus, or spindle-tree. 



The titmouse, which early in February begins to 

 make two quaint notes like the whetting of a saw, is 

 the marsh titmouse ; the great titmouse sings with 

 three cheerful joyous notes, and begins about the 

 same time. 



Wrens sing all the winter through, frost ex- 

 cepted. 



House-martins came remarkably late this year 

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Redbreasts. 



