9798 Birds. 



Gray Wagtail. — Not quite so common as the last. 



Yellow Wagtail. — A rather scarce summer visitor: the earliest note 

 I have of their arrival is April the 21st. 



Tree Pipit. — An occasional summer visitor. I have one in my col- 

 lection, shot in the parish. I have seen one or two others. 



Meadow Pipit. — Very common, especially about the sheep-folds in 

 the winter, when the sheep are in turnips. 



Sky Lark. — Tolerably common all through the year. In the hard 

 weather last year great flocks of these birds appeared in the allot- 

 ment-gardens and in the rape-fields, where they did considerable 

 damage, reducing the leaves of rape and any other green thing they 

 could find to perfect skeletons, as if they had been eaten by the cater- 

 pillars. 



Wood Lark. — Not at all common, only once having come under my 

 observation in this parish, on which occasion I obtained one specimen 

 for my collection. 



Reed Bunting. — Very common near the brook and in all the hedges 

 by the water-meadows. In the winter they flock a good deal with the 

 yellow-hammers, chafl5nches and linnets. 



Yellowhammer. — Very common ; to be seen in all the hedges in the 

 country, and, in winter especially, about the roads. 



Cirl Bunting. — Very uncommon ; 1 have never seen more than 

 three or four of these birds here. Those I have in my collection I shot 

 within the parish, after having been on the look out for some years. 



Chaffinch. — The most common of all our birds, except perhaps the 

 house sparrow, but, being more generally spread over the country, I 

 should think it must be rather the more numerous of the two. It is 

 locally known as the " whitefinch." 



Bramhling. — Not uncommon in the winter, when they are occa- 

 sionally caught by bird-batters, and perhaps oftener than is supposed, 

 as they are always set down as " whitefinches," and consequently 

 not noticed. When caught in this way I have easily h^een able to tame 

 them. 



House Sparrow. — Very common, of course. 



Greenjinch. — Also very common ; generally known as the " green 

 linnet." 



Goldfinch. — Not so common as the last, but still by no means 

 rare. 



Siskin. — An occasional winter visitor to the alder-bushes near the 

 brook. 



Linnet. — Pretty common ; to be seen more often in the winter 



