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whence specimens of its nest and eggs have been received. Its habits, 

 food, song, nest and eggs, and general character, approach very near 

 the former species: — song rather more hurried, and sometimes 

 garrulous in expression, but the quality of voice quite equal, and the 

 tones deeper, some of its notes resem bling the blackbird's song : nest 

 generally placed loosely in the middle of a bramble-bush, in a ditch, 

 particularly where nettles offer concealment in the bush. 



Whitethroat. — Summer visitant: commonly distributed. The 

 inferiority of song iu this species is very remarkable when its 

 similarity and alliance to the two former are considered. 



Lesser Whitethroat. — Occasionally seen in the autumn migration 

 at Scill}', but unknown otherwise: summer visitant, common else- 

 where. 



Wood Warbler. — Summer visitant : very common in several 

 localities in the eastern parts of the county ; viz., Trebartha woods, 

 where it breeds annually : only once seen in the western district. 

 This bird possesses two varieties of song, quite different from each 

 other: the first, and the most usual, is the rapid jarring trill, from 

 which it derives its Latin name ; the second is a low whining, plaintive 

 call, repeated two or three times, at certain intervals, resembling the 

 words " chea, chea, chea," 



Willow Warbler. — Summer visitant : rather local, but, where found, 

 common. 



Chiffchaff. — Summer visitant : generally distributed. Some few 

 remain throughout most winters, and have been heard chirping, in 

 mild open weather, in December and January. 



(The great migratory movement of our winter visitors seems to have 

 taken place from Tuesday last to the end of the week, during the 

 prevalence of the late easterly winds. Woodcocks, snipes, jack 

 snipes, redwings, fieldfares and starlings have appeared in large 

 numbers from the eastern part of the county to the Scilly Islands, 

 and my nephew writes me word that on the 3rd instant he walked up 

 iu a short distance fifty snipes and thirty jack snipes at Trebartha, in 

 the eastern part of the county, and that his keeper saw, in the morning 

 dawn, woodcocks flying westward, which accounts for our market here 

 being fully slocked on Thursday, and for the larder of the Governor 

 of the Scilly Isles having yesterday morning forty-one woodcocks 

 hanging up. — November 5, 1864.) 



(In a paper which I communicated to you some twelve months since 

 upon this subject, I referred to an anomaly which presented itself at 



