$234 Tue ZooLoGIsT—SEPTEMBER, 1872. 
nearly ready to fly, I have never heard the young utter even the the faintest 
sound of recognition, pleasure, eagerness, or other. If any person be near 
when the old birds, with insects in their mouths, perch on a neighbouring 
branch, to look about them, they utter two similar “ clicks,” with occasional 
repetitions, awaiting the departure of the spectator, or their conviction that 
all is right : if a cat be near, the old birds utter two or three notes, the first 
of which differs entirely from the others, frequently repeating this warning 
so long as the cat remains. July 16th.—The young flycatchers, in a bright 
warm sun, are standing up in the nest, or on the side of it; and now they 
are quitting it for the first time, and, flying to a beech tree close by, are 
settling on the sunny side of the large leafy tree. No longer silent, they 
take good care to let the old birds know where among the leaves they are 
to be found. Later in the day I perceive the young birds have removed to 
a different part of the tree, influenced probably by the sun, which has left 
their early resting-places in shadow. If the old birds bringing food find any 
one under the tree, they utter sounds, unheard before, enjoining silence, 
and are obeyed. The birds do not return to the nest at night—W. H. 
Wayne ; Much Wenlock. 
Swallow and Martin, or Chimney Swallow and Eave Swallow.—Macgilli- 
vray would prefer the name “ redfronted swallow,” because it builds much 
more frequently not in chimneys than in them; and the martin (house martin) 
is so true an Hirundo that he says it were well to call it a swallow, and, 
with perfect consistency, he would have them “ the red-fronted swallow” 
and “the white-rumped swallow.” I observed the first pair of swallows this 
year on the 23rd of April, and on the 28th “the white-throat and more 
swallows.” In a few days they were numerous, and I was struck with the 
decided preference they gave to the chimney-tops for alighting, and often 
in the smoke. May not this be one reason for the name “chimney 
swallow”? The martins did not come till about the 10th of May, and were 
remarkable and distinguished by flying up under the tiled eaves of houses, 
and clinging there on the perpendicular walls. What became of both at 
night I know not. I had been struck with the large number of swallows, 
but when the martins became numerous the swallows so wholly disappeared 
that in many a week not one have I recognized. I am convinced they are 
no longer in this little town, and suppose they are nesting in sheds and other 
buildings in the country about, placing their nests very frequently on the 
surface of beams and other timbers. Are some of them likely to have left 
for the rocks three or four miles from the town? June 9th.—The martins 
are beginning to build early this morning in the corner of an accustomed 
window of my house. So far as I see, the martins are everywhere in the 
town placing their nests under the eaves of the houses or at the corners of 
windows; the swallows here never doing so that I can see.—Zd. 
[I most sincerely hope that none of my correspondents will introduce new 
