Titlarks not only sing sweetly as they sit on 

 trees, but also as they play and toy about on the 

 wing ; and particularly while they are descending, 

 and sometimes as they stand on the ground. 



Adanson's testimony seems to me to be a very 

 poor evidence that European swallows migrate dur- 

 ing our winter to Senegal : he does not talk at all 

 like an ornithologist; and probably saw only the 

 swallows of that country, which I know^ build within 

 Governor O'Hara's hall against the roof. Had he 

 known European swallows, would he not have men- 

 tioned the species? 



The house-swallow washes by dropping into the 

 water as it flies : this species appears commonly about 

 a week before the house-martin, and about ten or 

 twelve days before the swift. 



In 1772 there were young house-martins in their 

 nest till the 23rd of October. 



The swift appears about ten or twelve days later 

 than the house-swallow : viz. about the 24th or the 

 26th of April. 



Whin-chats and stone-chatters stay with us the 

 whole year. 



Some wheat-ears continue with us the winter 

 through. 



Wagtails of all sorts remain with us all the 

 winter. 



Bullfinches when fed on hempseed often become 



wholly black. 



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