1252 The Zoologist— June, 1868. 



April 9. Nest of blackbirds batched. 



April 9. Nest of thrushes hatched. 



April 14. Snipe last seen. 



April 14. Tree pipit seen and heard. 



April 14. A flight of buzzards, five in number, passed over this 

 village to-day : time 12.30 P. m. They came from the direction of the. 

 sea, east, and were travelling westward. When first observed by me 

 were flying at no great height, but, being " baited " by the rooks from 

 my trees, rose in their beautiful spiral flight, till far beyond the reach 

 of the clamourous rooks, and theu still circling as long as 1 could see 

 them, but at the same time moving westward, were soon lost to sight. 

 I did not get sufficiently near to these birds to determine the species. 

 They seemed too dark, however, for the roughlegged buzzard, and 

 from their manner of soaring, &c, I am inclined to think were the so- 

 called "common" species. 



April 20. Chimney swallow first seen. 



April 20. Willow wren seen and heard. 



April 23. Common sandpiper seen. 



April 25. Yellow wagtail's first appearance. 



April 27. Sand martin first seen; we invariably see the chimney 

 swallow in this neighbourhood before the sand martin. 



April 28. Whitethroat and lesser whitcthroat seen and beard. 



April 30. Cuckoo heard. 



May 1. Whinchat first seen. 



May 1. Linnets and greenfinches, still in flocks, feeding on the 

 groundsel growing in the clover-fields in the marshes. 



May 3. House martin first seen. Is generally a very late arrival in 

 this north-eastern corner of Lincolnshire. 



May 3. Sedge warbler heard. 



May 5. Swift's first appearance, five seen. 



May 9. Garden warbler seen and heard. 



May 12. Spotted flycatcher seen. 



John Cokdeaux. 

 Great Cotes, Uluebv, Lincolnshire, 



May 13, 1868. 



Du Chnil/u's vnr Troglodytes. — Some of my renders will l>e pleased, others 

 disappointed, to learn tbat !\I. Du Cliaillu's new njir, ilie Tscnego hoove of his 

 ' Equatorial Africa,' is accepted by Dr. Slick as a genuine species distinct from 

 Troglodytes niger. Dr. Slack has communicated the following account of it to the 

 Academy of Natural Sciences at Philadelphia :—" Size about equal to that of the 



