3,98 SAXICOLA. (ENANTHE. 



things. Who would imagine Nightingale I^ane, in London, to be derived 

 from Knightenguild ? Yet so we find in ' Up and down the London Streets,' 

 p. 39, by Mark Lemon, quoting Cunningham's ' Handbook.' 



Willughby remarks thus (p. 233) -.—"Wheatear, because in the time of 

 wheat harvest they wax very fat." So they do ; but wheat is not the cause 

 of this. 



Macgillivray (vol. ii. p. 296), quoting Markwick in the fourth vohime 

 of the ' Linnean Transactions/ says, they (the traps) " are set up every year 

 on St. James's day, the 25th of July." This is not the case vsrith our 

 shepherds ; they know^ less about St. James or his day than they do about 

 Lindfield lamb-fair and the joys thereof. 



The Brighton race-time is the first w^eek in August ; and the poulterers 

 lament that they cannot get Wheatears till after the races, because the 

 shepherds will not set traps before Lindfield fair, i. e. August 5th. 



St. James's day is unknown to such shepherds as I have asked ; but when 

 you speak of Lindfield-Green stock -fair they are all alive. There are no fat 

 sheep at it ; only flockmasters and shepherds attend. Next to the one at 

 Lewes it is the greatest fair in this part of the coast ; they all draw to this 

 spot. Some 30,000 sheep and lambs are said to be penned. 



An old shepherd told me that they cannot set coops before, because they 

 have all their lambs to trim for the fair. "" We sets o' Lindfield, and j^/fe in 

 o' Lewes p. ^.September 21st]. There's a plentiful sight of gipsy carts. 

 O ! it 's a nice fair ! " " Fills in " means, put down the turf again. 



This Lindfield, the shepherd's gathering, is near Hayward's Heath. 



On the 17th of August I went round "the coops " with a shepherd. 

 We caught only seven Wheatears and five Starlings : the former were killed 

 by the man pinching their skulls ; and the Starlings were let go. On August 

 16th the next shepherd caught thirty-eight. 



