220 The Zoologist— May, 1866. 



observed — the male with crest erect, but not soaring, nor have I heard 

 its song. 



Song T^u'ush, <&c. — A nest found early in the month containing three 

 eggs. A pair of blackbirds are again building in the ivy high up on the 

 house, the female as usual doing all the work : though raining heavily 

 at the time, she was in and out of the nest eveiy three or four minutes, 

 but generally alighting on the verandah for a second before flying up 

 to the nest. 



In reply to the editorial note (S. S. 174), I beg to say that though 

 unable, in every instance to give the parliculars, all that can be relied 

 on is detailed with scrupulous accuracy, and the names of my 

 informants given when I have perniissiou to do so. Mr. Nobbs's 

 account is circumstantial enough, and is given almost verbatim. 



Henry Hadfield. 

 Ventnor, Isle of Wight, 



April 2, 1«66. 



The Migratory a7id Wandering Birds of the County Dublin, with 

 the Times of their Arrivals and Departures, as far 'as the 

 Grallatores. By Harry Blake-Knox, Esq. 



As you invited me to send you an account of the summer 

 migrants to this county, I waited till the end of last year (1865), that 

 1 might be enabled to give the general time of the arrivals and 

 departures of the migrants for the last five years, and though I am not 

 strictly keeping within bounds in thus giving a list of all the migrants, 

 both winter and summer, to tliis county, still I hope that the subject 

 may be an excuse for taking up the pages of the ' Zoologist' by what 

 may appear to be only a local list — things I have a great antipathy to, 

 unless the local lists of a country, or a large section of a country, be 

 united into a table ; they are then of great advantage, as showing the 

 distribution of species, but merely as local lists they are seldom read. 

 Another point, too nice for my experience of migratory birds, is giving 

 the exact date on which a species arrives or departs : true, the bird 

 may first have been noticed on that dale, or that average date, by that 

 particular person, but another may have seen it before. I therefore 

 avoid being dogmatical as to a date, and divide the mouth into three 

 sections — first, middle and end, of ten days each ; I never found the 

 latitude too much or too little, the bird generally arriving within the 



