The Zoologist — June, 1873. 3557 



Fieldfare. — March 18. This afternoon there was a great flock of 

 fieldfares in a ploughed field in a neighbouring parish not far from 

 the coast. I tried to make a careful estimate of their numbers, 

 which could hardly be short of eight hundred. 



Brambling. — March 24. A fine old male with a flock of chaf- 

 finches in the hedgerows. 



Chifchqf.—'MaLrch 29. First heard. 



Wheatear. — March 31. First observed ; a female. Common as 

 this species is in our marshes in the spring, I have up to this date 

 (May 3rd) not noticed another example. Owing to the excessive 

 severity of the spring and the bitter north-east winds, our migrants 

 have been very scarce, few and far between, and remarkable by 

 their silence. 



White Wagtail. — April 2. I saw a pair of white wagtails in the 

 marsh this morning chasing and toying together ; in the same place 

 (a freshly-sown oat-field) were many pairs of the common pied 

 species. Pied wagtails arrived in considerable numbers towards 

 the end of March and early in April, but only remained a ieyf days 

 in the marshes : although I have been daily on the look-out, these 

 are the only examples of the continental M. alba that I have seen. 



Hooded Crow. — April 8. Left from the 8th to the 14th. Wind 

 N.E. to E. and S.E. 



Redstart. — April 12. First observed, a male, near Barnsley, 

 Yorkshire. 



Tree Pipit and Willow Wren. — April 14. Heard and seen near 

 Barnsley. Tree pipit at Great Cotes, April 24lh. 



Chimney Swallow. — April 17, Great Cotes j at Waltham, within 

 six miles of this place, April 13th. 



Sand Martin. — April 19. First appearance, Riby Park. 



Fieldfare. — April 20. Large flocks remained with us up to this 

 date. They have daily visited the tops of some high trees on the 

 "beck" bank, the last group of timber between Great Cotes and 

 the coast. I saw a small flock of forty on the 3rd of May. 



Golden Plover. — April 21st, three seen j 29th, a pair. All were 

 in full summer plumage. 



Bartailed Godwit. — April 24. A pair feeding together on the 

 flats. 



Lesser Whitethroat and Ray's Wagtail— k^xil 28. First seen. 

 Great Cotes marshes ; wind W. 27th. Wind N., excessively cold 

 and stormy, with showers of sleet, hail and snow. 



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