The Zoologist — October, 1869. 1861 



Peewits. — The first were noticed on the 17th, and by the 20th some 

 were paired and flying about near their breeding ground. 



Missel Thrush. — On the 20th an old missel thrush was sitting on a 

 nest containing four eggs, although it was snowing hard and the 

 groinid was quite white. 



Brownhooded Gull. — On the 23rd one flew close past me with its 

 brown hood perfectly completed, but I saw others in which the change 

 was only partially effected. 



Jack Snipe. — I shot the last which I saw this spring on the 23rd, 

 my dog flushing a second at the same time : the russet colour, which 

 characterises the summer dress, was beginning to be assumed on 

 the neck. 



April. 



Greater Spotted Woodpecker. — A female of this species was killed 

 by one of the gamekeepers in Little Glemham Park on the 30th, and 

 I procured it from him : it showed signs of sitting, and I fear it had 

 a nest — perhaps full of young. 



Snipe. — On the 23rd I saw a" full" snipe for the last time, having 

 put one up several times during the previous week. 



Spring arrivals. — The house martin was first seen on the 22nd ; 

 swallows and sand martins a kw days previously ; redstart on the 

 21st; nightingale on or about the 20th; and red-backed shrike 

 towards the eud of the month. 



Godwit. — On the 24th, the earliest party of bar-tailed godwits 

 made their appearance on the mud "flats" of the Aide. 



Whiinbrel. — I noticed the whimbrel for the first time this year upon 



the same day, the 24th. 



May. 



Golden Oriole. — On the 5th of the month a hen of this handsome 

 species was shot in a plantation a few miles from Woodbridge. On 

 the 31st, as a friend and I were walking in a quiet lane near Parham, 

 a bird, which I am almost certain was an oriole, flew over our heads 

 and alighted in a clump of trees a few hundred yards oflf: it was of an 

 extremely bright yellow, and the sun was shining at the time, giving 

 the bird a beautiful appearance. 



Redbacked Shrike. — In the stomach of a male which I shot on the 

 24th I found a mass of beetles, with feathers and undigested bones of 

 a hen chaffinch. 



Swift. — First seen, at Great Glemham, on the 8lh. 



Turtle Dove. — 1 noticed the first flock of these doves on the 6th, 



