THE ZooLoGist—JUNE, 1875. 4495 
my own cursory observations; others might have observed or heard the 
birds earlier. 1875. 1874. 
Chiffchaff - - : - - - April 6. April 6. 
Blackcap - - - Seek = - Sie: bs iGs 
Willow Wren” - - - - - PRY wakes 
Swallow - - - - - - rome op Ba i 
Cuckoo - - - - - - » 19. 
Sedge Warbler - - - - - Non-appearance. ,, 21. 
Whitethroat e - - - 3 Aphis 
—E. H. Rodd; Penzance, April 23, 1875. 
Spring Migrants.—Nightingales were first heard on the 80th of March, 
at St. Lawrence, and sang throughout the greater part of the night: the 
day had been fine and mild, thermometer 50° at 9 a.m. This is the 
earliest date of arrival I ever remember, though Dr. G. Macdonald, in a 
letter to the ‘Times,’ says that he saw a nightingale in the woods near 
Brecon on the 24th of March. I was inclined to doubt it, thinking that 
Dr. Macdonald might have mistaken the bird, as he does not say that he 
heard the nightingale, and they usually rest awhile on the south and south- 
east coasts before pairing and proceeding inland. To reach Brecon, they 
would have to pass through Sussex, Hants, Wiltshire, Gloucester, and 
Monmouth, a distance of some two hundred miles, without a halt by the 
way, or they must have been heard of. However, that they have appeared 
some days earlier than usual is certain. The chiffchaff was late in arriving 
in this neighbourhood, not having been observed till the 6th of April, when 
I saw one flitting about the shrubs skirting the Bonchurch pond. Two 
swallows were seen on the 16th of April in rapid flight, thermometer 48°, 
wind east, and three more were observed on the 18th; they are a week or 
so later than usual. The wheatear and cuckoo are the only other birds 
that I have heard of, but I do not know the exact dates of their occurrence. 
_ That Macgillivray erred in saying that the cuckoo “visits us in the end of 
April,” there can be no doubt. The chiffchaff and wheatear are the joint 
harbingers of spring, arriving together—like the cuckoo and wryneck, but 
some three weeks earlier.— Henry Hadfield; Ventnor, Isle of Wight, 
April 22, 1875. 
Additions to the Avifauna of the Feroe Islands—1 am indebted to my 
kind friend Herr Sysselmand H. C. Miiller, of Thorshavn, for notice of 
the occurrence of the following species, not hitherto included in the 
published lists of birds observed in these islands. In the Zoological 
Museum of Copenhagen there is an example of Coracias garrula, Linn., 
obtained in F'eroe on the 22nd of July, 1836, by His Excellency Governor 
yon Tellisch. On the 4th of August, 1873, a female specimen of Puffinus 
fuliginosus, Strick., was captured four English miles east of the island of 
Nolsoe.—H. W. Feilden. 
