﻿NOTES 
  AND 
  QU 
  BRIMS. 
  

  

  AYES. 
  

  

  Late 
  Breeding 
  of 
  the 
  Martin 
  (Chelidon 
  urbica). 
  — 
  Does 
  not 
  this 
  

   species 
  regularly 
  continue 
  nesting 
  later 
  than 
  any 
  other 
  British 
  breeding 
  

   bird 
  ? 
  This 
  is 
  my 
  experience, 
  arid 
  I 
  see 
  that 
  more 
  than 
  one 
  corre- 
  

   spondent 
  (Zool. 
  1903, 
  p. 
  455, 
  and 
  ante, 
  p. 
  82) 
  calls 
  attention 
  to 
  its 
  late 
  

   nests. 
  From 
  my 
  own 
  note-book 
  of 
  personal 
  observations 
  I 
  take 
  the 
  

   following: 
  "Martins 
  feeding 
  young 
  in 
  nest 
  at 
  Wellington, 
  Somerset, 
  

   Oct. 
  11th, 
  1888." 
  The 
  following 
  personal 
  records 
  all 
  refer 
  to 
  Scar- 
  

   borough 
  : 
  " 
  A 
  pair 
  breeding 
  young 
  in 
  nest, 
  Oct. 
  1st, 
  1898." 
  " 
  Young 
  in 
  

   nest, 
  Sept. 
  18th, 
  1899." 
  " 
  Feeding 
  young 
  at 
  two 
  nests, 
  Sept. 
  29th, 
  and 
  

   at 
  one 
  nest, 
  Sept. 
  80th, 
  1900." 
  Of 
  late 
  occurrences 
  of 
  the 
  bird 
  here 
  I 
  

   have 
  the 
  following 
  notes 
  : 
  " 
  Saw 
  one 
  on 
  Nov. 
  22nd, 
  1904, 
  and 
  heard 
  of 
  

   its 
  being 
  about 
  the 
  same 
  place 
  in 
  December 
  of 
  that 
  year." 
  " 
  Saw 
  one 
  

   on 
  the 
  South 
  Cliff, 
  Dec. 
  16th, 
  1900. 
  One 
  was 
  shot 
  on 
  the 
  North 
  Cliffs, 
  

   Dec. 
  23rd, 
  1900."— 
  W. 
  Gyngell 
  (Scarborough). 
  

  

  Autumn 
  Song 
  of 
  the 
  Cirl- 
  Bunting 
  and 
  Dipper. 
  — 
  Several 
  articles, 
  

   including 
  one 
  from 
  Mr. 
  Aplin 
  in 
  1894, 
  have 
  appeared 
  in 
  ' 
  The 
  Zoolo- 
  

   gist 
  ' 
  on 
  the 
  autumn 
  song 
  of 
  birds, 
  but 
  I 
  have 
  been 
  unable 
  to 
  find 
  the 
  

   two 
  above-mentioned 
  birds 
  in 
  any 
  of 
  the 
  lists. 
  In 
  this 
  district 
  the 
  

   Cirl-Bunting 
  (Emberiza 
  cirlus) 
  is 
  undoubtedly 
  an 
  autumn 
  songster, 
  and 
  

   may 
  occasionally 
  be 
  heard 
  singing 
  every 
  year 
  in 
  that 
  season. 
  This 
  

   Bunting 
  is 
  one 
  of 
  our 
  most 
  persistent 
  singers 
  ; 
  the 
  • 
  regular 
  song 
  com- 
  

   mences 
  about 
  the 
  end 
  of 
  March, 
  and 
  continues 
  to 
  mid-August. 
  I 
  also 
  

   hear 
  it 
  occasionally 
  every 
  year 
  in 
  September 
  and 
  October. 
  On 
  Oct. 
  

   5th 
  and 
  6th, 
  1892, 
  I 
  happened 
  to 
  be 
  Salmon-fishing 
  on 
  the 
  Usk, 
  at 
  

   Glan 
  Usk 
  pool, 
  near 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  haunts 
  of 
  the 
  Cirl-Bunting, 
  and 
  heard 
  

   the 
  song 
  of 
  this 
  bird 
  at 
  intervals 
  during 
  several 
  hours 
  on 
  each 
  day. 
  

   On 
  referring 
  to 
  my 
  notes 
  I 
  find 
  I 
  have, 
  in 
  the 
  last 
  fourteen 
  years, 
  heard 
  

   the 
  song 
  in 
  every 
  month 
  except 
  December, 
  the 
  earliest 
  date 
  being 
  

   Jan. 
  25th, 
  1892, 
  and 
  the 
  latest 
  on 
  Nov. 
  2nd, 
  1900 
  — 
  a 
  fine 
  warm 
  day 
  

   with 
  a 
  shade 
  temperature 
  of 
  sixty-one 
  degrees. 
  Strange 
  to 
  say, 
  I 
  

   have 
  very 
  rarely 
  heard 
  its 
  much 
  commoner 
  congener, 
  the 
  Yellow 
  

   Bunting, 
  between 
  the 
  beginning 
  of 
  August 
  and 
  the 
  end 
  of 
  February. 
  

   The 
  Dipper, 
  which 
  is 
  perhaps 
  as 
  common 
  here 
  as 
  in 
  any 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  

   kingdom, 
  sings, 
  as 
  is 
  well 
  known, 
  nearly 
  all 
  the 
  year 
  round. 
  I 
  think 
  

   its 
  song 
  is 
  to 
  be 
  heard 
  on 
  more 
  days 
  in 
  the 
  year 
  than 
  any 
  other 
  bird. 
  

   It 
  commences 
  singing 
  about 
  the 
  middle 
  of 
  August, 
  and 
  so 
  continues 
  

   till 
  the 
  end 
  of 
  June. 
  During 
  a 
  hard 
  frost, 
  when 
  all 
  other 
  birds, 
  in- 
  

   cluding 
  the 
  Bobin, 
  are 
  without 
  song, 
  the 
  Dipper 
  sings 
  as 
  merrily 
  as 
  

   in 
  May. 
  — 
  E. 
  A. 
  Swainson 
  (Woodside, 
  Brecon). 
  

  

  Zool. 
  4th 
  ser. 
  vol. 
  VIII., 
  February, 
  1904. 
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