Birds. 



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throat; 3rd, whinchat; 6th, garden warbler and swift; 7th, sedge 



warbler. 



John Cordeaux. 

 Great Cotes, Ulceby, Lincolnshire, 



June 2, 1865. 



Dates of the Oviposilion of Birds in (he Neighbourhood of Marlborough in 1865. — 

 The following observations on the oviposition, &c., of birds in the neighbourhood of 

 Marlborough, were made by the under-nnentioned Members of the Marlborough 

 College Natural History Socieiy, and are kindly communicated to the 'Zoologist' by 

 the Rev. T. A. Preston : — 



Kestrel. April 21. J. W. Parrington. 



Sparrowhawk. April 26. C. E. Lawson. 



Tawny Owl. April 11. R. C. Davis. 



Red backed Shrike. Seen, April 10. J.Pole. 



Missel Thrush. April 8. VV. R. Carles. 



Song Thrush. April 3. W. W. Melville. 



Blackbird. April 10. E. H. Carr. 



Ring Ouzel. Seen, April 16. A.Armstrong. 



Hedge Sparrow, April 12. W. Blaker. 



Redbreast. April il (hard-set). P. S. 

 Robinson. 



Redstart. April 28. R. C. Davis. 



Whinchat? April 26. F. Kingsford. 



Common Whitethroat. May 2. H.Chester. 



Lesser Whitethroat. May 1; nest ready ; 

 no eggs. A. C. Almack. 



Great Tit. April 27. R. C. Davis. 



Blue Tit. April 24. R. C. Davis. 



Longtailed Tit. April 24. G. A. Wright. 



Pied Wagtail. April 27. M. Ward. 



Sky Lark. April 20. J. W. Parrington. 



Blackheaded Bunting. May 5. P. S. 

 Robinson. 



Yellowhamraer. ApriI17. W.W.Melville. 



Chaffinch. April 15. W. W. Melville. 



House Sparrow. April 17. W. W. Mel- 

 ville. 



R. C. Davis. 



H. F. Boyd and 



Greenfinch. May 3 

 Hawfinch. May 3, 



E. H. Carr. 

 Common Linnet. April 26. E. H. Davis 

 Starling. April 24. L. C. Calley. 

 Jackdaw. April 11. J.Pole. 

 Magpie. April 8. H.W. Hockin. 

 Jay. April 26. P. S. Robinson. 

 Common Creeper. April 28. R. C. Davis 

 Common Wren. May 3. R. C. Davis. 

 Nuthatch. April 28. R. C. Davis. 

 Cuckoo. Heard, April 8; seen, April 12. 



P. S. Robinson. Young bird. May 3. 



W. W. Dayman. 

 Swallow. First seen, March 28; next 



noticed April 2. E. G. Bevan. 

 Swift. Seen, April 27. H. W. Hockin. 

 Ring Dove. Eggs, March 10; young birds, 



March 22. J. H. Lambert. 

 Stock Dove. April 11. R. C. Davis. 

 Peewit. April 18 ; hard-set eggs, April 20. 



J. W. Parrington. 

 Land Rail. Heard, April 26. H. P. Lee. 

 Moorhen. April 13. P. S. Robinson. 

 Dabchick. April 29. J. W. Whitaker. 

 Herring Gull. Seen, April 23. W. R. 



Carles. 



Notes on Birds in Carmarthenshire.— We have had here the severest and longest 

 winter remembered; the snow was quite eighteen inches deep on the level twice, and 

 it laid on the mountains from the middle of January to the end of March; the first 

 spring-like day we had was the 30th of March ; since then we seem to have had it 

 more like summer than spring ; the nights have been frosty, but, with one exception, 

 the frost has done no harm. The summer birds seem to have come all at once. I saw 

 a chiffchnff on the 1st of April ; heard several on the 4th. Heard a wryneck on the 

 6th of April; cuckoo on the lOlh ; willow wren, tree pipit and swallow on the 11th; 

 blackcap on the 12th ; wood wren and corn crake on the 20ih ; house martin on the 



