168 NATURAL HISTORY 



lu 1772 there were young house-mar- 

 tins* in their nest till October the twenty- 

 third. 



The swi/t-^ appears about ten or twelve 

 days later than the house-swallow : viz. 

 about the twenty-fourth or twenty-sixth 

 of April. 



Whin-chats and stone-chatters^ stay with 

 us the whole year. 



Some wheat-ears§ continue with us the 

 Winter through. 



Wagtails, all sorts, remain with us all 

 the Winter. 



Bulfinches,|| when fed on hempseed, 

 often become wholly black. 



We have vast flocks of female chaf- 

 finches^ all the Winter, with hardly any 

 males among them. 



When you say that in breeding time the 

 cock-snipes** make a bleating noise, and 

 I a drumming ^perhaps I should have ra- 



* British Zoology, vol. ii. p. 244. t P. 245. 



t P. 270,271. § P. 269. II P. 300. 



11 P. 306. * P. 358. 



