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ORNITHOLOGICAL NOTES 
FROM 
MAY Isr ro 31st, 1882. 
In continuation of my first series of notes I will now cite 
some further dates in the order in which they were set 
down. 
On May 1st I saw, close to Prague, a good many Sand- 
Martins (Cotyle riparia) flying about a large deep sand-pit, far 
from all water. 
On May 2nd, as I was waiting for the coming of the Caper- 
caillie cocks at the edge of a young plantation of pines that 
adjoined a high beech-wood, a Woodcock flew past, uttering 
its note loudly. This was at half-past six in the evening, and 
it was therefore still quite light. I soon afterwards saw the 
first White-collared Flycatchers (Muscicapa albicollis), The 
weather was rainy and mild, and the vegetation was very for- 
ward even in that raw district, the beeches and larches being 
clad in the richest green. 
After being silent for eight days the cock Capercaillies 
again began calling lustily ; previously they had only been 
heard here and there, so that it was generally believed that 
the drumming-time was already over; on May 2nd and 8rd, 
however, it was going on in the woods just as merrily as 
during the height of the season. For several years past I 
